An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
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 unit of mass in the English foot-pound-second system. One slug is the mass accelerated at 1 foot per second per second by a force of 1 pound. Since the acceleration of gravity () in English units is 32.174 04 feet per second per second, the slug is equal to 32.174 04 pounds (14.593 90 kilograms). The slug was formerly used in calculations in mechanics and engineering, but it has been largely abandoned in favor of metric units. The unit was called the "engineer's mass unit" during the late nineteenth century. The British physicist A. M. Worthington first called it a slug in a 1902 textbook. (Probably he had in mind older uses of the word to mean a weight or a projectile. In the 1600's a slug was a roughly shaped lump of metal shot from a primitive cannon.)
a projectile that is fired from a gun
a large piece of lead, either in the shape of a round ball or a conical bullet, placed in a shotgun shell instead of pellets
a lead projectile fired through a shotgun barrel
a lead projectile used for hunting big game with a shotgun
a term used for a solid ballistic projectile
The U.S. customary unit of mass defined as the mass which receives an acceleration of 1 foot per second per second when a force of 1 pound is applied to it.
A unit of measure for mass in the English system. Equal to 14.6 kilograms in the SI or MKS system.
A single large projectile fired by a shotgun. It often has spiral grooves, called rifling, cut into the outer surface.
Any of a variety of metal pieces discharged from a gun.
A cup shaped, hollow base projectile, usually bearing external pre-cut rifling, intended for adapting shotguns to the hunting of larger game, such as deer.
The unit of mass in the English Gravitational System, approximately 32.2 pounds-mass. Because "pound" is ambiguous and can refer either to mass or force, the slug is used exclusively as a unit of mass. Earth's gravity exerts a force of 32.2 pounds-force on a mass of 1 slug.
A large, single projectile, often bearing external pre-cut rifling, intended for adapting shotguns to the hunting of larger game such as deer. Also a slang term for bullet. As a verb, "to slug" means forcing a soft lead slug through the bore of a gun and measuring it to determine barrel dimensions.