Slug (disambiguation)
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A slug is a gastropod mollusk without a shell or with a very small internal shell.
Slug or slugs may also refer to:
Objects
- Slug (projectile), a solid ballistic projectile
- Slug (coin), a counterfeit coin
- Slug or blank, a piece of bar stock ready to be machined into a finished part
- Slug (railroad), an accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive
Science and technology
- Slug (mass), a unit of mass in the Imperial system
- Grex (biology), an aggregation of amoebae
- Slug, a nickname for the Linksys NSLU2
- Slugs (autopilot system), an open-source autopilot system oriented toward inexpensive autonomous aircraft
Publishing
- Slug (publishing), a short name given in newspaper editing to articles that are in production
- Slug (typesetting), a piece of spacing material used in typesetting to space paragraphs
- Slug (web publishing) a user- and SEO-friendly short text used in a URL to identify and describe
- SLUG Magazine, Salt Lake Under Ground magazinea resource
Entertainment and sports
Music
- Slug (song), by The Ramones. Appears as bonus song on 1190 compilation album All the Stuff (And More) Volume Two.
- Slug (rapper), an underground rapper best known as a member of the hip-hop group Atmosphere
- Slug (band), a noise rock band from Los Angeles, California
- SLUG, a British art-rock band associated with the Brewis brothers
- the backing group of Doug and the Slugs, a Canadian pop music group
- "Slug" (song), a 1995 song by Passengers (U2 and Brian Eno)
Fictional characters
- Slug (comics), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
- Lord Slug, the main antagonist of the fourth Dragon Ball Z movie
- Slug (Transformers), an alternative name for the character Slag in the Transformers franchise
Other
- Slugs (novel), novel by Shaun Hutson
- Slugs (1988 film), based on the novel
- Slugs (2004 film), German film
- "The Slug", a pop culture blog for the defunct web portal asap
- Slug, another name for Chinese handball
People
- Slug Signorino, illustrator and designer Michele Signorino, most notable for his cartoons in The Straight Dope
- Casimir Witucki (1928-2015), American National Football League player nicknamed "Slug"
See also
- A957 road, a Scottish roadway commonly called the "Slug Road"
- Slugging, "ride-share" + hitchhiking
- Slugger (disambiguation)
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