preslugged

Verb

preslug (third-person singular simple present preslugs, present participle preslugging, simple past and past participle preslugged)

1. (nuclear engineering) To compress (fuel) into pellets before use.
   • Los Alamos concluded that the use of preslugged material is beneficial, 10 tsi is the optimum pressing pressure, and binders are not necessary.1970, Reactor Materials - Volume 13, page 65
2. To preprint on a form with automatically-generated individual identifying information.
   • Either header sheets or dark-mark coding directly on the answer document itself provides the input to the computer memory for pre-codable information such as test, level, or form, while response spaces to be marked by the user take care of all kinds of unique identifying information, such as...1972, Oscar Krisen Buros, The Seventh Mental Measurements Yearbook - Issue 7, Volume 2, page 1001
3. To give a title, header, or catchline before writing the piece.
   • I came to Virginia from Bloomington, Indiana, where I had gone in pursuit of a story we at the Tatler had preslugged "The Violence Teachers."1995, James Lehrer, The Last Debate, →ISBN, page 56

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