gun vs slug

gun

noun
  • A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer. 

  • A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. 

  • A pattern that "fires" out other patterns. 

  • The biceps. 

  • Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube. 

  • A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. 

  • A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun. 

  • A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun. 

  • A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it. 

  • Violent blasts of wind. 

  • An expert. 

  • Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool. 

  • A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. 

  • A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute) 

  • A device or tool that projects a substance. 

  • A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). 

  • An electron gun. 

verb
  • To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause). 

  • To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for. 

  • To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer. 

  • To cause to speed up. 

  • To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning. 

slug

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

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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