shot vs slug

shot

noun
  • A punch or other physical blow. 

  • Small metal balls used as ammunition. 

  • A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting. 

  • The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal. 

  • An opportunity or attempt. 

  • A cast of one or more nets. 

  • Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small. 

  • A single draft or catch of fish made. 

  • A vaccination or injection. 

  • The heavy iron ball used for the shot put. 

  • A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames. 

  • Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim. 

  • Written documentation of a behavior infraction. 

  • The result of launching a projectile or bullet. 

  • A charge to be paid, a scot or shout. 

  • A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce) 

  • A single serving of espresso. 

  • A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam). 

  • A place or spot for setting nets. 

adj
  • Worn out or broken. 

  • Scarred silly or crazy of something or someone usually due to a traumatic experience with said fear. 

  • Tired, weary. 

  • Discharged, cleared, or rid of something. 

  • Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance. 

verb
  • To load (a gun) with shot. 

intj
  • An expression of gratitude, similar to thank you. 

slug

noun
  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • 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 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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