slugging

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
   • "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....1998 July 23, “Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines'”, in Washington Post
3. (intransitive) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
   • To slug in slouth and sensuall delights.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23
5. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
   • to slug a gun
6. To make sluggish.
   • So little do we fear , you slug you1692, John Milton, translated by [Joseph Washington], A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC

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