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yard slugs

yard slugs is the plural of yard slug.

Meaning of yard slug

Noun

yard slug (plural yard slugs)

  1. A slug (locomotive accessory) designed for switching; it has a low body, and no cab, in order to allow an engineer or driver in a powered unit to the rear to see past it.

Questions about yard slugs

What is yard slugs the plural of?
Yard slugs is the plural of yard slug.

Words near yard slugs in the dictionary

  1. yard rope
  2. yard ropes
  3. yard sale
  4. yard sales
  5. yard slug
  6. yard slugs
  7. yard trash day
  8. yard trash days
  9. yard up
  10. yard work
  11. yard-arita

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yard slugs (page history and authors); yard 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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