cup vs slug

cup

noun
  • Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks. 

  • That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions. 

  • A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle. 

  • A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. 

  • A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL. 

  • A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction. 

  • The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league. 

  • The contents of said vessel. 

  • A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit. 

  • Anything shaped like a cup. 

  • The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations. 

  • A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole. 

  • Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size. 

  • A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup. 

  • A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. 

  • A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players. 

  • A contest for which a cup is awarded. 

  • A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL. 

  • One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast. 

verb
  • To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup. 

  • To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. 

  • To hold something in cupped hands. 

  • To make concave or in the form of a cup. 

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. 

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