🔫 A bullet 🐌 A slimy animal 😴 A lazy person 🥊 To hit hard 🥃 A small drink 🪙 A fake coin 😴 To be lazy 🥊 A hard punch ⚖️ A mass unit 🌐 A web address part 🔠 A spacing bar

slug

28 3.0

A small soft animal with no shell that moves slowly

noun
/slʌg/

: babosa

What was one of the first thoughts you had after you see this little slug, this little slug?
sea slug
snails and slugs
species of slugs

Mountain sized ice slugs bump and skid toward the desert.

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Examples

A slug slithered across the moist soil, leaving a shiny trail behind.
For instance, slugs are not harmful to humans, but their mucus coating makes them repulsive.

Academic text (1999)
Never eaten a slug before.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
So we've got ourselves a little slug here, which is pretty cool.
I saw a white slug, as big as my father's thumb, on the opposite wall.

Fiction book (1998)
But then I looked closer and it was like a tiny little slug all up on my beautiful little lettuce.
Waiter, waiter, there's a slug on my lettuce.

I'm Going to Tell You a Secret (2005)
The grass was full of black slugs, shiny and viscous, and Robin was busy slapping at his head.

Fiction book (2000)
While walking in the garden, I spotted a small slug slowly crawling over the leaves.
The children were fascinated by the giant slug they discovered in the backyard.

Antonyms

hard-shelled

1 3.6

Having a hard outer covering that protects what is inside, like a crab or nut

Compounds

sea slug

Specialized

3 6.5

A soft sea animal without a shell, often brightly colored

slug cutter

Archaic

9.8

A tool used in traditional printing to cut thin lead strips for spacing type

type slug

Archaic

9.9

A thin metal strip placed between words to make space in printing

Surface Forms

slug singular

slugs plural

Etymology

Slug for the garden animal comes from an old word meaning 'slow' or 'lazy', and it is like the English word sluggish, because the creature moves very slowly. So the slimy, slow-moving animal is called a slug.