Slug vs. Bleed

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

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

A bullet (projectile).

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

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

(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.

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

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

(television editing) A black screen.

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

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

A hitchhiking commuter.

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

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

A ship that sails slowly.

A blow, usually with the fist.

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

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

Example: ‘He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.’; ‘The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.’;

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

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 move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

Example: ‘to slug a gun’;

To make sluggish.

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

A hindrance; an obstruction.

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.

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

A ship that sails slowly.

Example: ‘His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.’;

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

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.

To move slowly; to lie idle.

Example: ‘To slug in sloth and sensual delight.’;

To make sluggish.

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

To strike heavily.

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.

a projectile that is fired from a gun

an idle slothful person

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

strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

Example: ‘He slugged me so hard that I passed out’;

be idle; exist in a changeless situation;

Example: ‘The old man sat and stagnated on his porch’; ‘He slugged in bed all morning’;

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).

To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

Example: ‘If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.’;

(transitive) To let or draw blood from.

(transitive) To take large amounts of money from.

(transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

Example: ‘The company was bleeding talent.’;

To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

(transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.

To bleed on; to make bloody.

To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

Example: ‘He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.’;

To lose sap, gum, or juice.

Example: ‘A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.’;

To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.

To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

Example: ‘Labialization bleeds palatalization.’;

An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.

(printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).

(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.

Example: ‘The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day.’;

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.

Example: ‘For me the balm shall bleed.’;

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.

Example: ‘A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber.’;

To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

lose blood from one's body

draw blood;

Example: ‘In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment’;

get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone;

Example: ‘They bled me dry--I have nothing left!’;

be diffused;

Example: ‘These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run’;

drain of liquid or steam;

Example: ‘bleed the radiators’; ‘the mechanic bled the engine’;