bottle vs slug

bottle

noun
  • Intoxicating liquor; alcohol. 

  • A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. 

  • A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle. 

  • The contents of such a container. 

  • A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing. 

  • A building; house. 

  • (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage. 

verb
  • Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times. 

  • To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. 

  • To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig. 

  • To throw away a leading position. 

  • To strike (someone) with a bottle. 

  • To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval. 

  • To feed (an infant) baby formula. 

slug

noun
  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

How often have the words bottle and slug occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )