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# slug

«slug» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small, soft, slimy animal like a snail but with no…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a slug, slugs); verb (slug — informal, hit hard)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small, soft, slimy animal like a snail but with no shell, that lives in damp places and eats plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#m1)

2) A small amount of a drink swallowed quickly (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#m2)

3) Informal: a bullet, or a fake coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#m3)

4) As a verb (informal), to hit someone hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, slugs are molluscs (like snails and octopuses), not insects; they have no legs and move on one muscular foot over a trail of slime, which helps them glide and keeps them moist. They come out at night and after rain and eat leaves and vegetables, so gardeners often dislike them; birds, hedgehogs, frogs and thrushes eat slugs. In safety, slug pellets are poisonous to pets, so keep away, and wash your hands after touching slugs. Phrases: "slug trail", "slug pellets", "slow as a slug".

### examples

- A slug left a shiny slime trail on the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x1)
- Slugs have eaten holes in our lettuces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x2)
- A slug is like a snail without a shell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x3)
- Hedgehogs love to eat slugs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x4)
- Slugs come out after rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x5)
- Wash your hands after you touch a slug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x6)
- Keep slug pellets away from pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x7)
- We found a fat orange slug under the log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x8)
- Just look! that rose is all slug-eaten, and this one is stunted! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/#x9)

### note

Countable: a slug, slugs. A slug is not a worm (worms are segmented and have no slime trail of that kind) and not an insect (no legs). Salt hurts slugs badly, so do not put salt on them. "Slug" and "snail" are close relatives.

### In the corpora

- [Slug pellets can poison hedgehogs that eat poisoned slugs, and hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them/11/)
- [A worm has no legs, and a snail or slug has one wide muscly foot instead of legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/16/)
- [Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs and beetles eat them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/13/)
- [Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind was banned in Britain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/14/)
- [They eat insects, worms and slugs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slug» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slug/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.