English Dictionary

slug

IPA（発音記号）

/slʌɡ/

名詞

廃用 稀用 地域限定 アメリカ英語 俗語

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. / (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

日本語の意味

ナメクジ（殻が発達していない、または全くない陸生の腹足類） / 怠け者（のろそうな性格の人）

After the heavy rain, I found a slug slowly crossing the garden path.

大雨の後、庭の小道をゆっくりと横切るナメクジを見つけました。

意味（1）

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

意味（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.

意味（4）

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

意味（5）

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

意味（6）

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(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.

意味（9）

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.

意味（10）

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

意味（11）

(rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.

意味（12）

(television editing) A black screen.

意味（13）

(letterpress typography) 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.

意味（14）

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

意味（15）

(US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.

意味（16）

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

意味（17）

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug

意味（18）

A ship that sails slowly.

His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

slugs （ plural ）