chaser vs slug

chaser

noun
  • A drink drunk after another of a different kind. 

  • Synonym of prison chaser (“person who guards military prisoners”) 

  • A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser. 

  • A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves. 

  • A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity. 

  • A chubby chaser. 

  • In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it. 

  • A tranny chaser. 

  • A chase gun. 

  • Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae. 

  • One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement. 

  • A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected. 

  • A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases. 

  • One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing. 

  • A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads. 

  • Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing. 

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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