Definitions
(boxing) a blow with the fist
Word origin
Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”).
Used in a sentence
“[…] 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.”
“The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs.”
“This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Solid punch”4 letters
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