What is the difference between alcoholic and slug?
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A person addicted to alcohol.
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Of or pertaining to alcohol.
Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
A bullet (projectile).
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
(physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
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A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
(television editing) A black screen.
(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
(web design) The last part of a (clean URL), the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
(obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
A ship that sails slowly.
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To drink quickly; to gulp.
To down a shot.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
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(of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
(obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
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To load with a slug or slugs.
To make sluggish.
As nouns the difference between alcoholic and slug
is that alcoholic is a person addicted to alcohol while slug is any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell.As a adjective alcoholic
is of or pertaining to alcohol.As a verb slug is
to drink quickly; to gulp.alcoholic
English
Noun
(en noun)- Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
- Daddy was an alcoholic
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
Synonyms
* dipsomaniac, drunkardAntonyms
* teetotaler, on the wagonSee also
*Adjective
(en adjective)- He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
- The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .
Antonyms
* nonalcoholicDerived terms
* Alcoholics Anonymous ----slug
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare) Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Romeo and Juliet
- (Francis Bacon)
- His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (a quantity of a drink) See alsoDerived terms
* black slug * sea slug * slug lineSee also
* (gastropod) snailVerb
(slugg)- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
- To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
- to slug a gun
- (Milton)