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Is slug a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word slug is a Scrabble US word. The word slug is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

GULS,LUGS,SLUG,

3-letter words (5 found)

GUL,GUS,LUG,SUG,UGS,

2-letter words (3 found)

GU,UG,US,

You can make 11 words from slug according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of slug

slug lsug sulg uslg lusg ulsg slgu lsgu sglu gslu lgsu glsu sugl usgl sgul gsul ugsl gusl lugs ulgs lgus glus ugls guls

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word slug. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in slug.

Definitions and meaning of slug

slug

Pronunciation

  • enPR: slŭg, IPA(key): /slʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology 1

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

  1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18th c.]
  2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15th c.]
  3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. [from 1620s]
  4. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
  5. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
  6. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
  7. (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. [from 1920s]
  8. (physics, rare) 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.
    Synonym: geepound
  9. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
  10. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  11. (rail transport) 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.
  12. (television editing) A black screen.
  14. (letterpress typography) 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.
  15. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
  16. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
  17. (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
  18. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
  19. A ship that sails slowly.
Synonyms
  • (small amount of liquor): see nip & Thesaurus:drink
Derived terms
Related terms
  • lug
  • sluggard
Translations
See also
  • (gastropod, locomotive): snail

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

  1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
  2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
  3. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
  5. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
  6. To make sluggish.
Derived terms
  • slugabed
Translations

References

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

  2. A hard blow, usually with the fist. [from 1830s]

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

  2. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
Derived terms
  • slug away
  • slugfest
  • slugging match
  • slug it out
  • slugger
Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “slug”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Guls, LUGs, lugs

Manx

Etymology

Cognate with Irish slog.

Verb

slug (verbal noun sluggey, past participle sluggit)

  1. to swallow, swig, slug, guzzle, draw
  2. to devour, gorge, gulp
  3. to engulf

Noun

slug m (genitive singular slug, plural sluggyn)

  1. swallow, swig, draught

Derived terms

  • sluggag

Mutation

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German slû, probably from a Proto-Germanic *slūhaz (“sneaking, creeping”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuǵ (“to crawl, slide”), if the original sense referred to sneaking and sliding. Cognate of German schlau, Dutch sluw.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Adjective

slug

  1. sly, cunning

Usage notes

The difference between listig and slug is similar to the difference between cunning and sly, where slug sounds more deceitful by default.

Declension

Derived terms

  • bakslug
  • knipslug
  • slughet
  • småslug

See also

  • listig

References

  • slug in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • slug in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • slug in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish slog (“to swallow”), form Old Irish sluicid, from Proto-Celtic *slunketi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slʊɡ/

Verb

slug

  1. to eat greedily

Derived terms

  • slougherdhès

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68

Source: wiktionary.org