slug
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- noun
- /slʌg/
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proyectil
- The hunter loaded the gun with a heavy slug designed for big game.
- caliber slug
- .22-caliber slug
Well, he was in really good shape and was taking drugs maybe yeah, even today's body armor to take a slug.
- Well, he was in really good shape and was taking drugs maybe yeah, even today's body armor to take a slug.
Examples
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The lab matched the slugs from the shooter's gun to a buIIet they dug out of a murder victim about a month ago.
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So, perhaps when Moss took the shotgun slug to the arm, he was already dead.
Blog text (20) -
Why would he put a .38 slug in his mouth?
Fiction book (2002) -
The gun goes off; the slug tears past Tito's head.
Fiction book (1997) -
His gun matched slugs on the bodies on the boat.
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Ballistics is checking on the slug.
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The gun he dropped matched the slugs from those bodies at the ship.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ballistics will match this slug with the one in Bolotov's mouth.
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Same caliber as the slugs found in the convenience store homicide.
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Ballistics matched the slugs we took out of O'Bannon and his bodyguards.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A tool used in traditional printing to cut thin lead strips for spacing type
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slug for a bullet or heavy projectile comes from the idea of a single solid 'lump' of metal fired from a gun, so a slug is a single heavy shot rather than many small pellets. That is why hunters and police call a single large projectile a slug.