Crossword-Solution: SLUG 4 letters, 176 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Slug	n.	A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
Slug	n.	A hindrance; an obstruction.
Slug	n.	Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
Slug	n.	Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
Slug	n.	A ship that sails slowly.
Slug	n.	An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
Slug	n.	A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
Slug	v. i.	To move slowly; to lie idle.
Slug	v. t.	To make sluggish.
Slug	v. t.	To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
Slug	v. t.	To strike heavily.
Slug	v. i.	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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SLUG	anagram	GULS, LUGS

We have 176 clues for the answer “SLUG”

Clue	Answers
Animal similar to a snail	1 answer
Animal that can mate while dangling from a mucus rope	1 answer
Bad penny, e.g.	1 answer
Bad quarter	1 answer
Banana ___ (molluscan mascot of the University of California, Santa Cruz)	1 answer
Be like Bonds	1 answer
Bogus coin	1 answer
Bogus quarter	1 answer
Bullet; punch	1 answer
Cabbage-loving pest	1 answer
Coin that's not a coin	1 answer
Conterfeit coin	1 answer
Counterfeit coin	1 answer
Counterfeit item	1 answer
Counterfeit quarter	1 answer
Counterfeit quarter, e.g.	1 answer
Creature leaving a slime trail	1 answer
Creature that trails slime	1 answer
Drink, Skid Row style	1 answer
Dummy coin	1 answer
Emulate Bonds	1 answer
Fake token	1 answer
False coin	1 answer
Fare beater?	1 answer
Fare-beater's "token"	1 answer
Fare-beater's aid	1 answer
Foot-pound-second unit of mass	1 answer
Garden animal that leaves a slime trail	1 answer
Garden crawler	1 answer
Garden visitor after a rainstorm	1 answer
Give a knuckle sandwich	1 answer
Give a knuckle sandwich to	1 answer
Haul off on	1 answer
Hit but good	1 answer
Hit for power	1 answer
Hit lots of homers	1 answer
Illegal coin	1 answer
It doesn't really represent change	1 answer
It leaves a slimy trail	1 answer
Kind of a dollar	1 answer
MUSKET ball	1 answer
Metaphor for idleness	1 answer
Mollusk like a land snail.	1 answer
Mollusk with a banana variety	1 answer
NUDIBRANCH	1 answer
Nickname for a slow person	1 answer
Phony coin	1 answer
Phony nickel	1 answer
Present with a knuckle sandwich	1 answer
Punch but good	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SLUG (5)

Oak’s eyes followed the serpentine sheen to the other side, where it led up to a huge brown garden-slug, which had come indoors to-night for reasons of its own.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

And soon one broke out: 'I can suffer No longer the life of a slug, The man that don't race is a duffer, Let's have one more run for the mug.

The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995

But if Gafferson was intent upon revenge and exposure instead? With such a slug-like, patient, tenacious fool, was that not more likely? Reasonable arguments presented themselves to his mind ever and again: his wife had known of Gafferson's work, and thought highly of it, and had been in a position to learn of his leaving Hadlow.

The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008

And his union was compelled to bully and slug the employers' unions in order to hold up wages or hold down hours.

John Barleycorn Jack London 2008

And out of the grass, on a sudden, broke A spirtle of fire, a whorl of smoke -- And Captain O'Neil of the Black Tyrone Was blessed with a slug in the ulnar-bone -- The gift of his enemy Boh Da Thone.

Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 2008

Quotes with SLUG (3)

crawled like a blind slug into the web

Charles Bukowski The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk." They're for you.""You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?

Holly Black Red Glove

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Jean Shepherd

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 255 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).