Slug (disambiguation)

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Slugs are gastropod mollusks without shells or with very small internal shells.

Slug may also refer to:

• Pseudoplasmodium, an aggregation of amoebae
• Shotgun slug, a sub-ammunition type for the shotgun
• Gas slug, an accumulation of gas bubbles in lava that is the key element of Strombolian eruptions.
• Slug, another name for Chinese handball
• Slug, a nickname for the Linksys NSLU2
• SLUG Magazine, Salt Lake Under Ground magazine
• Slugging, "ride-share" + hitchhiking
• Slug (coin), a counterfeit coin
• Slug (mass), a unit of mass in the Imperial system
• Slug (projectile), a solid ballistic projectile
• Slug (railroad), an accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive
• Slug test, a particular type of aquifer test
• A student at University of California, Santa Cruz, which is nicknamed "Banana Slug"
• Slug or blank, a piece of bar stock ready to be machined into a finished part

In media production:

• Screenplay slug line, brief description of a scene setting
• Slug (publishing), a short name given in newspaper editing to articles that are in production
• Slug (typesetting), a piece of spacing material used in typesetting to space paragraphs
• Slug (web publishing) a user- and SEO-friendly short text used in a URL to identify and describe a resource

In pop culture:

• Slug (rapper), an underground rapper from Minneapolis, Minnesota, best known as a member of the hip-hop group Atmosphere.
• "Slug" (song), a 1995 song by Passengers (U2 and Brian Eno)
• Slug (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
• 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
• "The Slug", a pop culture blog for the defunct web portal asap

See also

• Sea slug (disambiguation)

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