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bullet: a projectile that is fired from a gun strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" sluggard: an idle slothful person any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell idle: be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
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(slug) (slug) general term for any of numerous terrestrial gastropods closely related to the snails but having a rudimentary or absent shell; they are divided between the subclasses Euthyneura and Streptoneura. Some are intermediate hosts of parasitic trematodes.
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Slugs are gastropods without shells or with very small shells, in contrast with snails from which they evolved, which have a prominent shell. Although they undergo torsion (twisting) during development, their bodies are streamlined and worm-like, and so show little external evidence of it. This same basic design developed independently in several different groups, the largest being the sea slugs or nudibranchs. ...
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A railroad slug is an accessory to a locomotive. A slugs has trucks with traction motors but is unable to move about under its own power as it does not contain a prime mover. Instead, it is connected to a locomotive, called the mother, which provides current to operate the traction motors. Sometimes a locomotive will be connected to each end of the slug and both will provide power to it. ...
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A derived unit for mass in the USCS gravitational systems; widely used in engineering.
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