Slug vs Plug - What's the difference?
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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.
* Samuel Pepys
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.
(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
(US, slang) A worthless horse.
(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
(informal) To persist or continue with something.
To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
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(slang) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.
In transitive terms the difference between slug and plug
is that slug is to load with a slug or slugs while plug is to shoot a bullet into something with a gun.As nouns the difference between slug and plug
is that slug is any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell while plug is a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.As verbs the difference between slug and plug
is that slug is to drink quickly; to gulp while plug is to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.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)
Derived terms
* slug it outAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----plug
English
(wikipedia plug)Noun
(en noun)- I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
- Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
- He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
- That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
- During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
- Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
- The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
Synonyms
* (hole filler) bung, stopper * (worthless horse) dobbin, hack, jade, nagDerived terms
* butt-plug * breech plug * bridge plug * fire plug * glow plug * hawse plug * plugboard * plug and feather * plug centerbit * plug rod * plug valve * spark plugCoordinate terms
* (worthless horse) bum (racing )Verb
(plugg)- He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
- The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
- Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
- I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
- I'd love to plug her.