Slug (disambiguation)

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Slug may refer to:

Contents 1 Nature 2 Measurements 3 Item 4 People 5 Fiction 6 Other uses

[edit] Nature

• Slug, gastropod mollusks without shells or with very small internal shells
• Pseudoplasmodium, an aggregation of amoebae

[edit] Measurements

• Slug (mass), an English unit of mass; see also poundal
• When talking about flows of fluids though a pipeline a slug is a discrete quantity of one fluid that flows though the line surrounded by another.
• Slug test, a particular type of aquifer test

[edit] Item

• Slug (projectile), a solid ballistic projectile
• Slug (railroad), an accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive
• Slugging, "ride-share" + hitchhiking
• Counterfeit coin

[edit] People

• Slug (rapper),

[edit] Fiction

• Slug (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Slug is a short title for a story, usually not more than a word or two.
• The Order Of The Slug is a sinister secret society in the darkly comic United Kingdom stage musical Restart by Komedy Kollective.
• Slugs (novel), a novel by Shaun Hutson
  • Slugs (film), based on the novel
• Lord Slug, the main antagonist of the fourth Dragon Ball Z movie

[edit] Other uses

• Linksys NSLU2
• Slug is sometimes used as a verb meaning "to hit".
• In newspaper editing, a slug is a short name given to an article that is in production. The story is labeled with its slug as it makes its way from the reporter through the editorial process. Sometimes a slug contains code information that tells editors specific information about the story — for example, the letters "AM" at the beginning of a slug on a wire story tell editors that the story is meant for morning papers, while the letters "CX" indicate that the story is a correction to an earlier story.
• In the production process of print advertisements, a slug or slug line, refers to the "name" of a particular advertisement. Advertisements usually have several markers, ad numbers or job numbers and slug lines. Usually the slug references the offer or headline and is used to differentiate between different ad runs.
• In closed captioning, a story slug is a title/header for prescripted stories.
• In typesetting, a slug is a piece of typemetal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error (as by TeX).
• In television editing, a slug refers to a black screen
• In street games, it is another name for Chinese handball