slug
/slʌɡ/ verb C2- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- To load with a slug or slugs. · to slug a gun
- To make sluggish.
He/she/it slugs · Past slugged · Past participle slugged · -ing form slugging
Verb forms
- Base form
- slug
- He/she/it
- slugs
- Past
- slugged
- Past participle
- slugged
- -ing form
- slugging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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If slugging is no use then it's up to you."
In fact, of the twenty rose-trees which formed the parterre, not one bore the mark of the slug, nor were there evidences anywhere of the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil.
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