1. n. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
2. n. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
3. n. A bullet (projectile).
4. n. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
5. n. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
6. n. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
7. n. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
8. n. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
9. n. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
10. n. (television editing) A black screen.
11. n. (metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
12. n. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
13. n. (US, slang) A hitchhiking commuter.
14. n. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
15. n. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
16. n. A ship that sails slowly.
17. n. A hard blow, usually with the fist.
18. v. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
19. v. To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
20. v. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
21. v. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
22. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
23. v. To load with a slug or slugs.
to slug a gun
24. v. To make sluggish.
prune
1. n. Pruneau, prune séchée.
2. v. Élaguer.
A good grape grower will prune his vines once a year.
3. v. Égayer (un arbre).
prune
1. n. (obsolete) A plum.
2. n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3. n. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
4. v. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
to prune a budget, or an essay
6. v. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
7. v. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
8. v. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
damson
1. n. Prunier de Damas.
2. n. Prune de Damas, quetsche.
3. adj. Couleur de la quetsche, violet très foncé.
damson
1. n. A subspecies of plum tree, , native to Eurasia.
2. n. The edible fruit of this tree.
3. adj. The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple.
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