Slug (disambiguation)

A slug is a gastropod mollusk without a shell or with a very small internal shell.

Slug or slugs may also refer to:

Objects

• Slug (coin), a counterfeit coin
• Slug (projectile), a solid ballistic projectile
• Slug (railroad), an accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive
• Slug or blank, a piece of bar stock ready to be machined into a finished part

Publishing

• Slug (publishing), a short name given in newspaper editing to articles that are in production
• Slug (typesetting), a piece of spacing material used in typesetting to space paragraphs
• Slug (web publishing), a user- and SEO-friendly short text used in a URL to identify and describe a resource

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Slug (comics), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Lord Slug, the main antagonist of the fourth Dragon Ball Z movie

Films

• Slugs (1988 film), based on the Shaun Hutson novel
• Slugs (2004 film), German film

Music

Groups

• Slug (American band), an American noise rock band
• Slug (British band), a British art-rock band
• Slugs, the backing group of Doug and the Slugs, a Canadian pop music group

Songs

• "Slug" (song), a 1995 song by Passengers (U2 and Brian Eno)
• "Slug", a bonus song on the 1990 compilation album All the Stuff (And More) Volume Two by The Ramones

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• SLUG Magazine, Salt Lake Under Ground magazine
• Slugs (novel), a 1982 novel by Shaun Hutson
• The Slug, a pop culture blog for the defunct web portal asap

Science and technology

• Slug (unit), a unit of mass in the Imperial system
• Grex (biology), an aggregation of amoebae
• Slug, a nickname for the Linksys NSLU2
• Slugs (autopilot system), an open-source autopilot system oriented toward inexpensive autonomous aircraft
• SNAI2, a transcription factor in humans

Sports

• Slug, another name for Chinese handball
• Slugs, a nickname of the Buffalo Sabres National Hockey League team - see List of ice hockey nicknames
• Slugs, a nickname for the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, the sports teams of the University of California, Santa Cruz

People

• Slug (rapper), an underground rapper best known as a member of the hip-hop group Atmosphere
• Ray Jordon (1937–2012), Australian cricketer, nicknamed Slug
• Steve Russell (computer scientist) (born 1937), American computer scientist, creator of the early video game Spacewar!, nicknamed Slug
• Casimir Witucki (1928–2015), American National Football League player, nicknamed Slug

Other uses

• "Slug road", a colloquial name for the A957 roadway in eastern Scotland, UK
• Slug, a synonym for punch (combat)
• The Slug, a derogatory nickname for The Cloud, Auckland, a multi-purpose event venue in Auckland, New Zealand
• The Slug, another name for the Sunbeam 1000 hp land speed record car known as Mystery

See also

• Slugger (disambiguation)
• Slugging, a carpooling