The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slug \Slug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Slugging.]
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
To strike heavily. [Cant or Slang]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A blow or blows with the fist; a beating. 2 (context US English) The act of hitting a ball hard; slogging. vb. (present participle of slug English)
WordNet
n. a projectile that is fired from a gun [syn: bullet]
an idle slothful person [syn: sluggard]
any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
v. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" [syn: slog, swig]
be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" [syn: idle, laze, stagnate] [ant: work]
See slug
Wikipedia
Slugging, also known as casual carpooling, is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. Typically slugging is motivated by an incentive such as a faster HOV lane or a toll reduction. While the practice is most common and most publicized in the congested Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, slugging also occurs in San Francisco, Houston, and other cities.
Usage examples of "slugging".
Worse, the capital ships from Cimmaron, though few in number, were starting to make a difference in the energy-weapon slugging match which now raged with the fortresses.
Chaff watched as it sailed out of the cove, followed by the slugging hogger with its cargo of wounded and dejected men.
Still, slugging things out nose to nose was an iffy proposi-tion when numbers were this even.
Anglo-Canadian armies in the brutal, slugging battles for Caen and Falaise the spectacular advances made elsewhere by the Allied forces could never have come about.
He was forced to discard the Bushmasters and resort to his malletlike fists, slugging every Automaton that came within reach of his steely sinews.
What better way to pay back Barbara for dumping him, to pay back Colonel Hexham for helping him lose his wife, to pay back Oscar the guard for slugging him when he grabbed her to try to get her back, to pay back the Metallurgical Laboratory and the whole stinking human race on general principles?
But, Keisman noted, Gerber had received a less than honorable discharge from the army due to several offenses, including slugging an officer.
We would stand up and whale away with both fists, and then clinch and roll around the floor, biting and gouging and slugging, and onst we rolled clean over Uncle Esau and kind of flattened him out like a pancake.
Then the quid pro quo: Gammons tells Billy that the Montreal Expos have decided to trade their slugging outfielder, Cliff Floyd, to the Boston Red Sox.
Carlos from a hook, Billy tried to lure the Pittsburgh Pirates into giving him their slugging outfielder Brian Giles.
In fact, the last time a portal opened prior to the modern one, Athens and Sparta were slugging it out for dominance of the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
Slugging as he grappled, The Shadow kept ragged-clad bodies between himself and those zombi who were aiming guns.
Everyone ignored the splintering and crashing sounds of a table collapsing under two cursing men slugging each other and the shivering and tinkling sounds of breaking glass that followed as various nearby drinkers hurled bottles at the combatants, seeking to alter the odds of wagers just placed.
On the ground, slugging it out toe to toe, the Bioroids had met their match.
It caught Monk in the back of the head just as three gunmen bore Ham to the ground, slugging him viciously with blackjacks.