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Sabot vs Slug - What's the difference?

sabot | slug |

As nouns the difference between sabot and slug

is that sabot is a wooden shoe while slug is any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell.

As a verb slug is

to drink quickly; to gulp.

sabot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wooden shoe.
  • *1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 8:
  • A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel
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    slug

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
  • (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
  • (Shakespeare) Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Romeo and Juliet
  • 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.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • A ship that sails slowly.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • 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 also

    Derived terms

    * black slug * sea slug * slug line

    See also

    * (gastropod) snail

    Verb

    (slugg)
  • To drink quickly; to gulp.
  • To down a shot.
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
  • He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
    The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
  • 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.
  • * Spenser
  • To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
  • To load with a slug or slugs.
  • to slug a gun
  • To make sluggish.
  • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * slug it out

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