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 flow, a liquid-gas pipe flow
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
Slug (band), a noise rock band from Los Angeles, California
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
Slug (Transformers), an alternative name for the character Slag in the Transformers franchise

See also