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.
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.
A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.
Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).
Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
Sodium in chemical combination.