| 单词 | slug |
| 释义 | slug (once / 604 pages) 1n 2nv 3vn 4n 5n Use the word slug to mean "bullet," "slimy, land-dwelling mollusk," or "super lazy person." If your mom finds you on the couch as often as she finds slugs in her garden, she'll call you a slug too. When it's a verb, slug means "hit," so you might say, "That bully's always threatening to slug me." As a noun, slug can also mean "a blow," or "a gulp." But if your little brother is barefoot outside and suddenly screams, "Yuck, I stepped on a slug!" he is most likely talking about the squishy invertebrate that leaves a trail of slime behind it. WORD FAMILYslug: sluggard, slugged, slugger, slugging, sluggish, slugs+/sluggard: sluggards/slugger: sluggers/sluggish: sluggishly, sluggishness USAGE EXAMPLESThe first problem with that suggestion is slugs. The New Yorker(Dec 17, 2016) Trading was somewhat smoother Friday, but the key 7-day repo rate continued to inch up, and authorities felt compelled to inject another slug of cash. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) The rising dollar slugged oil prices, already smarting from concerns about over supply. Reuters(Dec 14, 2016) 1 1n a projectile that is fired from a gun Syn|Hypo|Hyper bullet dumdum, dumdum bullet a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound full metal jacketa lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) rifle balla bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape rubber bulleta bullet made of hard rubber; designed for use in crowd control missile, projectile a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a target but is not self-propelled 2n a counterfeit coin Hyper coin a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money 3n a strip of type metal used for spacing 2Syn|Hyper type slug type metal an alloy of tin and lead and antimony used to make printing type 1n any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell Hyper gastropod, univalve a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes 2n an idle slothful person Syn|Hyper sluggard bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer person who does no work 3v be idle; exist in a changeless situation 3He slugged in bed all morning Syn|Ant|Hypo idle, laze, stagnate work exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity do work, workbe employed moon, moon around, moon on be idle in a listless or dreamy way ride the bench, warm the benchbe out of the game daydream, moonhave dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's timebe lazy or idle lie about, lie aroundhang around idly 1v strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat He slugged me so hard that I passed out Syn|Hyper slog, swig hit deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument 2n (boxing) a blow with the fist 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper biff, clout, lick, poke, punch counter, counterpunch, parry a return punch (especially by a boxer) KO punch, Sunday punch, haymaker, knockout puncha hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing hooka short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent jaba quick short straight punch rabbit puncha short chopping blow to the back of the neck sucker punchan unexpected punch roundhousea hook delivered with an exaggerated swing blow a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon n a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms 5Hyper mass unit a unit of measurement for mass n an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped he took a slug of hard liquor Hyper alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent |
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