Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slug
Participle: slugged
Gerund: slugging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | slug |
| you | slug |
| he;she;it | slugs |
| we | slug |
| you | slug |
| they | slug |
Perfect
| I | have slugged |
| you | have slugged |
| he;she;it | has slugged |
| we | have slugged |
| you | have slugged |
| they | have slugged |
Past
| I | slugged |
| you | slugged |
| he;she;it | slugged |
| we | slugged |
| you | slugged |
| they | slugged |
Pluperfect
| I | had slugged |
| you | had slugged |
| he;she;it | had slugged |
| we | had slugged |
| you | had slugged |
| they | had slugged |
Future
| I | will slug |
| you | will slug |
| he;she;it | will slug |
| we | will slug |
| you | will slug |
| they | will slug |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slugged |
| you | will have slugged |
| he;she;it | will have slugged |
| we | will have slugged |
| you | will have slugged |
| they | will have slugged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slug |
| you | slug |
| he;she;it | slug |
| we | slug |
| you | slug |
| they | slug |
Perfect
| I | have slugged |
| you | have slugged |
| he;she;it | have slugged |
| we | have slugged |
| you | have slugged |
| they | have slugged |
Imperfect
| I | slugged |
| you | slugged |
| he;she;it | slugged |
| we | slugged |
| you | slugged |
| they | slugged |
Pluperfect
| I | had slugged |
| you | had slugged |
| he;she;it | had slugged |
| we | had slugged |
| you | had slugged |
| they | had slugged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slug |
| you | would slug |
| he;she;it | would slug |
| we | would slug |
| you | would slug |
| they | would slug |
Perfect
| I | would have slugged |
| you | would have slugged |
| he;she;it | would have slugged |
| we | would have slugged |
| you | would have slugged |
| they | would have slugged |
Imperative
| you | slug |
| we | Let's slug |
| you | slug |
Verbs conjugated like 'slug'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'slug'
glug,
lug,
plug,
scug,
shug,
skug,
slag,
slog,
slub,
slum,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”).
2. Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.
3. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.
Sample Sentences
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"We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs .... [1998 July 23, “Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines'”, in Washington Post:]
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no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day. [2002 December 13, Joshua E. Rodd, “The Perfect Mass Transit”, in dc.urban-planning (Usenet), message-ID :]
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To slug in slouth and sensuall delights. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23:]
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to slug a gun
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So little do we fear , you slug you [1692, John Milton, translated by [Joseph Washington], A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:]