jigger vs slug

jigger

noun
  • A drink of whisky. 

  • A vagina. 

  • Jig, Jigger, Jigabou, derogatory terms meaning the same as American Nigger. 

  • A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle. 

  • A placeholder name for any small mechanical device. 

  • A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware. 

  • A measure of 1 ½ fluid ounces of liquor. 

  • A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches. 

  • A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe. 

  • A lock pick. 

  • The sieve used in sorting or separating ore. 

  • An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race. 

  • An illegal distillery. 

  • A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 ½ fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce. 

  • One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging. 

  • A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. 

  • A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather. 

  • A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks. 

  • A device used in the dyeing of cloth. 

  • A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes. 

  • A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite. 

  • A warehouse crane. 

  • A jiggermast. 

  • The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards. 

verb
  • To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball. 

  • To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended. 

  • To use a jigger. 

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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