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slugs

slugs is the plural of slug.

slugs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slug.

Meaning of slug

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

  1. Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
  2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
  3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
    • […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 55
  4. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
  5. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
  6. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

See all 29 meanings of slug

Noun capitalized: SLUGs

SLUGs

  1. (plural) plural of SLUG

Phrases with slugs

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Questions about slugs

What is slugs the plural of?
Slugs is the plural of slug.
What part of speech is slugs?
Slugs is a noun.

Words near slugs in the dictionary

  1. slugifying
  2. slugless
  3. sluglike
  4. slugline
  5. sluglines
  6. slugs
  7. slugs away
  8. slugs it out
  9. slugs out
  10. slugthrower
  11. slugthrowers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slugs (page history and authors); SLUGs (page history and authors); slug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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