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sluggings

sluggings is the plural of slugging.

Meaning of slugging

Noun

slugging (countable and uncountable, plural sluggings)

  1. (US) A blow or blows with the fist; a beating.
    • The feuding for control of the Jersey waterfront made news as sluggings, bombings, and beatings continued on the Jersey City docks.1962, Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology
  2. (US) The act of hitting a ball hard; slogging.
  3. (neologism, slang) The practice of smothering one's face with vaseline in order to moisturize it.

Questions about sluggings

What is sluggings the plural of?
Sluggings is the plural of slugging.

Words near sluggings in the dictionary

  1. slugging away
  2. slugging it out
  3. slugging out
  4. slugging percentage
  5. slugging percentages
  6. sluggings
  7. sluggish
  8. sluggish cognitive tempo
  9. sluggish schizophrenia
  10. sluggisher
  11. sluggishest

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