Clues for the word "SLUG"
We've had 109 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 285 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 13, 2025.
Definition of slug
- n. - A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
- n. - A hindrance; an obstruction.
- 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.
- n. - Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
- n. - A ship that sails slowly.
- n. - An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
- 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.
- v. i. - To move slowly; to lie idle.
- v. t. - To make sluggish.
- v. t. - To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
- v. t. - To strike heavily.
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Wallop
- Soda machine tricker
- False coin
- Bullet
- Hard punch
- Powerful punch
- Fare-beater's aid
- Garden pest
- Token look-alike
- Hit with the fist
- Fare beater?
- Creepy crawler
- Vending machine tricker
- It doesn't really represent change
- Counterfeit quarter
- Gastropod
- Slimy garden pest
- Fake coin
- Counterfeit coin
- Couch potato
- Punch hard
- Foot-pound-second unit of mass
- Hit hard
- Really punch
- Let have it
- Belt
- Bogus quarter
- Blow
- Bad penny, e.g.
- Vending machine reject
- Present with a knuckle sandwich
- Dummy coin
- Subway token alternative
- Emulate Bonds
- Punch
- Hit hard, as a baseball
- Wooden nickel, e.g.
- Fake token
- Phony coin
- Nickname for a slow person
- Illegal coin
- Lie-abed
- Illegal coin
- Slot reject
- Shot of liquor
- Shell-less snail
- Snail lookalike
- Bogus coin
- Snaillike pest
- Snail with no shell
- Funny money
- Counterfeit quarter, e.g.
- Hit but good
- Sock
- Phony nickel
- Pistol projectile
- Kind of a dollar
- Strike heavily
- Wooden nickel
- Snail's kin
- Counterfeit token
- Creature leaving a slime trail
- Garden gastropod
- Garden pest defeated by salt
- Slimy pest
- Bullet - punch
- Bullet repelled by pellets?
- Bit of surplus luggage that can be a nuisance
- Pellet, or its victim?
- Hit that pest!
- Garden pest - bullet
- Bullet - hit hard - garden pest
- Hit for power
- Belt at the bar
- Shot - bullet
- Gardener's enemy gets shot
- Projectile fired from a gun
- Garden pest pellet
- Hit a pest
- Live ammunition?
- Snail relative
- 25 country virtually European in order of clues
- Bullet hit hard
- Bullet's from captain's Luger
- Slimy thing one's shot
- Hit idler
- Slimy garden creature
- Garden crawler
- Snail kin
- Hit lots of homers
- Garden creeper
- Gastropod mollusc
- Slime trail leaver
- It leaves a slimy trail
- Slimy garden denizen
- Whack over the wall
- Give a knuckle sandwich
- Slimy garden crawler
- Animal similar to a snail
- Pest
- Slimy creature
- Cabbage-loving pest
- Slimy mollusk
- Mollusk with banana and leopard species
- Mollusk with a banana variety
- Shell-less mollusk
- Wallop with a right hook
- Metaphor for idleness
- Shell-less gastropod
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 19, 2025
- New York Times - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 24, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 17, 2025
- Daily American - March 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2024
- Daily American - November 07, 2024
- Daily American - November 04, 2024
- New York Times - October 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2024
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