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 well drink.
A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
A source of supply.
The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
The cockpit of a sailboat.
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
To a significant degree.
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
Completely, fully.
Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
To have something seep out of the surface.
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
An exclamation of indignance.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
Used as a greeting
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
Prudent; good; well-advised.
In good health.
Good, content.