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| slug | |
| 1. sost. (malacologia) lumaca | |
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| slug | |
| 1. subst. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. |  |
| 2. subst. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | |
| 3. subst. A bullet (projectile). | |
| 4. subst. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. | |
| 5. subst. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. | |
| 6. subst. (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. subst. (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. subst. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. | |
| 9. subst. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. | |
| 10. subst. (television editing) A black screen. | |
| 11. subst. (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. subst. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. | |
| 13. subst. (US, slang) A hitchhiking commuter. | |
| 14. subst. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. | |
| 15. subst. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction. | |
| 16. subst. A ship that sails slowly. | |
| 17. subst. 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. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| lumaca | |
| 1. subst. slug | |
| 2. subst. (familiar, or regional) snail | |
| a passo di lumaca - at a snail's pace | |
| 3. subst. (figuratively) slowcoach | |
| 4. subst. (chiefly in the plural) type of pasta shaped like a snail's shell | |
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