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Slug Pronunciation

Pronounce Slug as S L UW G.

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    Slug phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'slug'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of slug: /sluɡ/
    • Modern IPA representation of slug: /slʊɡ/

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    List of meaning for slug

    a slimy mollusk that lacks a shell and secretes mucous as it drags its body along the ground

    bullet, slug(noun)

    a projectile that is fired from a gun

    slug(noun)

    a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms

    slug(noun)

    a counterfeit coin

    sluggard, slug(noun)

    an idle slothful person

    slug(noun)

    an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped

    "he took a slug of hard liquor"

    type slug, slug(noun)

    a strip of type metal used for spacing

    slug(noun)

    any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

    punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug(verb)

    (boxing) a blow with the fist

    "I gave him a clout on his nose"

    slug, slog, swig(verb)

    strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat

    "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

    idle, laze, slug, stagnate(verb)

    be idle; exist in a changeless situation

    "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"

    a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument

    one well aimed slug on the head knocked him out

    a lazy person

    he's always a slug in the morning, which is why he prefers to sleep late

    the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time

    knocked back another slug of whiskey

    to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

    she got so angry that she slugged the back of the chair and knocked it over

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    slug in sentence

    1. The viscid slug drug its sticky body along the concrete and up the hill.

    2. The slug took over the man’s garden, dragging its slimy body over the plants as it munched.

    3. Dripping slime as he moved its worm-like body, the small slug inched his way along the sidewalk toward the grass.

    4. A slug is slimy like a snail but lacks the hard shell that protects other mollusks from danger.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term slug

    Before you know it, they've sent a large slug of semi-solid material down, and it just stops.

    – Chuck White

    You might think the best shape changers are kind of like an octopus or a worm or a slug but yet we know that cockroaches can go through these tiny little cracks.

    – Robert Full

    Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner.

    – Martin Smith

    People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

    – Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

    A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

    – Mehmet Murat ildan

    The father who flipped out about it, 'What am I going to tell my kid about why she's in that outfit? ' tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn't like it. And then I took it off. Backstage.

    – Katherine Timpf of Fox News

    So there is a high likelihood that we are going to see a slug explosion given that many of their predators are in decline.

    – Paul Hetherington

    They usually go into a hibernation in winter but due to this very warm winter they have not. So what else do slugs do? They breed and they eat, so there is a high likelihood that we are going to see a slug explosion given that many of their predators are in decline.

    – Paul Hetherington

    I think they're going to slug it out for a while, once it gets down to a head-to-head contest, I think the conservative wins.

    – Ted Cruz

    I ’m a better runner now than I ever was before, i ’m faster. I’ve got Ironman Bruce Thomas. I do long sessions and sprint sessions and intervals. Before, I ’d just go slug it out for three hours. Having that external feedback is really underrated.

    – Pounds Pitt

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