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

Science and technology

• Slug (mass), 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

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
• SLUG Magazine, Salt Lake Under Ground magazinea resource

Entertainment and sports

Music

• Slug (rapper), an underground rapper best known as a member of the hip-hop group Atmosphere
• Slug (band), a noise rock band from Los Angeles, California
• the backing group of Doug and the Slugs, a Canadian pop music group
• "Slug" (song), a 1995 song by Passengers (U2 and Brian Eno)

Fictional characters

• Slug (comics), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Lord Slug, the main antagonist of the fourth Dragon Ball Z movie
• Slug (Transformers), an alternative name for the character Slag in the Transformers franchise

Other

• Slugs (novel), a novel by Shaun Hutson
• Slugs (film), based on the novel
• "The Slug", a pop culture blog for the defunct web portal asap
• Slug, another name for Chinese handball

People

• Slug Signorino, illustrator and designer Michele Signorino, most notable for his cartoons in The Straight Dope
• Casimir Witucki (1928-2015), American National Football League player nicknamed "Slug"

See also

• A957 road, a Scottish roadway commonly called the "Slug Road"
• Slugging, "ride-share" + hitchhiking
• Slugger (disambiguation)