sluge.html - {v. phr.} To have a strong verbal or physical battle with someone; to contest something most vigorously. * /The two contenders for the lightweight boxing championship were slugging it out in the ring./ * /The two candidates for Congress were slugging it out on radio and on television./

sluge.html - n.
1 a small shell-less mollusc of the class Gastropoda often destructive to plants.
2 a a bullet esp. of irregular shape. b a missile for an airgun.
3 Printing a a metal bar used in spacing. b a line of type in Linotype printing.
4 esp. US a tot of liquor.
5 a unit of mass, given an acceleration of 1 foot per second per second by a force of 1 lb.
6 a roundish lump of metal. [ME slugg(e) sluggard, prob. f. Scand.]

sluge.html - v. & n.
US --v.

tr. (slugged, slugging) strike with a hard blow.

--n.

a hard blow.

slug it out 1 fight it out.
2 endure; stick it out.

slugger n. [19th c.: orig. unkn.]

sluge.html - n.
archaic a lazy person who lies late in bed. [slug (v.) (see SLUGGARD ) + ABED]

sluge.html - n.
a lazy sluggish person.

sluggardly adv. sluggardliness n. [ME f. slug (v.) be slothful (prob. f. Scand.: cf. SLUG(1)) + -ARD]

sluge.html - adj.
inert; inactive; slow-moving; torpid; indolent (a sluggish circulation; a sluggish stream).

sluggishly adv. sluggishness n. [ME f. SLUG(1) or slug (v.): see SLUGGARD]