Ken Loach

If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn't seem to me a proper democracy.

English Director

Sterling Hayden

Audiences may not realize it, but heroes and leading men always depend on their muscles to get out of jams. They don't have to slug a guy in the mouth to solve a problem, but it's always hinted that he can fight like the heavyweight champ if he has to.

Frances Conroy

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

American Actress

Jane Hamilton

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

American Novelist

Jim Crace

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

English Writer

Letitia Baldrige

If somebody is disrespecting somebody, we should step in - even at the risk of getting slugged over the head.

American Writer

Rupert Grint

I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs.

English Actor

Blake Shelton

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

American Musician

Kodak Black

I knew I was going to be slugged up, my whole mouth gold.

Karl Pilkington

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

British Actor

The word 'slug' often appears in texts about gardening or wildlife.

Nature Context

'Slug' is associated with an aversion to salt, which is harmful to them.

Sensitivity to Salt

Slugs are known for their slow pace, so 'slug' implies something moving very slowly.

Slow Movement

Slugs (metal) are commonly referred to in mechanical and construction contexts.

Machinery and Tools

In arcades, 'slug' is used to describe fake coins or tokens used to play games.

Arcades and Tokens

As slang, 'slug' is often used to describe a powerful strike, usually in boxing or fights.

Slang for Strike

People may use 'slug' to express a sudden, unexpected hit, metaphorically or literally.

Expression of Surprise

Using 'slug' to describe drinking is very casual and may not suit formal contexts.

Informal Drinking

'Slug' can imply an over-the-top or aggressive manner of drinking.

Exaggerated Action

When used as a verb, 'slug' often conveys an aggressive or violent action.

Aggressive Connotation

 And even sea slugs flinch when they know they're about to receive a noxious stimulus. That means they have some memory of physical sensations. We still have a lot to learn about animal pain. As our knowledge grows, it may one day allow us to live in a world where we don't cause pain needlessly.

How do animals...

 When that sap touches the insect’s cells, its high sugar content encourages the water in the cells to come out by osmosis… exactly like salt encourages water to come out of a slug. The more sap that passes through the insect, the more water it loses. Eventually, it shrivels up and dies.

The bug that poops candy...

 It's almost impossible to model this structure any other way, and it's almost impossible to do it on computers. So what is this hyperbolic geometry that corals and sea slugs embody? The next few minutes is, we're all going to get raised up to the level of a sea slug.

Margaret Wertheim: The...

 law started to trickle through City Hall this is what they do they take them along with all the other muhabba Lou we're talking slot machines brass knuckles shotguns knives counterfeit subway slugs they take them all they put them onto a barge they go

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 Small agile fish use the jellies as moving reefs for protection, darting between tentacles without ever touching them. Nudibranchs, which are sea slugs covered in protective slime, can actually steal the jelly's defenses by eating the cnidocytes

How does a jellyfish...

 before I go further I get this question all the time what are slugs slugs are snails I define part of my mission as the spokesperson for land snails my goal is helping people become ecologically

The Strange and...

 his job done he retires from the royal chamber and dies a short but productive life for he'll father several million new ants with hungry mouths slugs are fair game for driver ants

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 they smother their prey but the slug has a trick up its sleeve it may be slow but it's well protected