Bullet vs. Slug

Bulletnoun

A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

Bulletnoun

(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

Bulletnoun

Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.

Bulletnoun

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)

Bulletnoun

A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

Bulletnoun

A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

Bulletnoun

(slang) One year of prison time

Bulletnoun

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

Bulletnoun

(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.

Bulletnoun

(in attributive use) Very fast speedy.

Bulletnoun

(obsolete) A small ball.

Bulletnoun

(obsolete) A cannonball.

Bulletnoun

(fishing) A plumb or sinker.

Bulletnoun

(obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.

Bulletnoun

The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.

Bulletverb

To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.

Bulletverb

To speed, like a bullet.

Bulletverb

To make a shot, especially with great speed.

Bulletnoun

A small ball.

Bulletnoun

A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

Bulletnoun

A cannon ball.

Bulletnoun

The fetlock of a horse.

Bulletnoun

a projectile that is fired from a gun

Bulletnoun

a high-speed passenger train

Bulletnoun

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;

Bulletnoun

a metal projectile for firing from a rifle, revolver, or other small firearm, typically cylindrical and pointed, and sometimes containing an explosive.

Bulletnoun

used in similes to refer to someone or something that moves very fast

Bulletnoun

(in sporting contexts) a very fast ball

Bulletnoun

dismissal from employment

Bulletnoun

a small symbol used to introduce each item in a list, for emphasis.

Bulletnoun

a stick of lipstick (considered separately from the tube in which it is encased)

Bullet

A bullet is a kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is shot from a gun barrel. The term is from Middle French, originating as the diminutive of the word boulle (boullet), which means .

Slugnoun

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

Slugnoun

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

Slugnoun

A bullet (projectile).

Slugnoun

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

Slugnoun

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

Slugnoun

(journalism) 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.

Slugnoun

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.

Slugnoun

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

Slugnoun

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

Slugnoun

(television editing) A black screen.

Slugnoun

(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.

Slugnoun

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Slugnoun

A hitchhiking commuter.

Slugnoun

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

Slugnoun

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

Slugnoun

A ship that sails slowly.

Slugnoun

A blow, usually with the fist.

Slugverb

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

Slugverb

(transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Slugverb

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

Slugverb

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

Slugverb

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

Slugverb

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

Slugverb

To make sluggish.

Slugnoun

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

Slugnoun

A hindrance; an obstruction.

Slugnoun

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

Slugnoun

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

Slugnoun

A ship that sails slowly.

Slugnoun

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

Slugnoun

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

Slugverb

To move slowly; to lie idle.

Slugverb

To make sluggish.

Slugverb

To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

Slugverb

To strike heavily.

Slugverb

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

Slugnoun

a projectile that is fired from a gun

Slugnoun

an idle slothful person

Slugnoun

any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

Slugverb

strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

Slugverb

be idle; exist in a changeless situation;

Slug

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract its soft parts into the shell).