Phrase Hound found 26 phrases and 5 compound words that contain slugs. The most common are listed below. Open slugs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 26
- banana slugsplural of banana slug: Any North American species of terrestrial slug in the genus Ariolimax, some of which resemble bananas in colour.
- sea slugsplural of sea slug: Any marine invertebrate with a visual resemblance to terrestrial slugs (land slugs).
- black slugsplural of black slug: An omnivorous slug found in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, Arion ater, not always black, despite the name.
- cherry slugsplural of cherry slug: The larva of the sawfly Caliroa cerasi, a major pest of fruit trees.
- ghost slugsplural of ghost slug: Selenochlamys ysbryda, a predatory air-breathing land slug.
- greenhouse slugsplural of greenhouse slug: Milax gagates (family Milacidae), a species of land slug.
- hump slugsplural of hump slug: A kind of slug (locomotive accessory) designed for even slower operation than a yard slug, and able to push a long cut of cars over a hump at very low speed.
- land slugsplural of land slug: A terrestrial slug.
- leopard slugsplural of leopard slug: Limax maximus, a large slug whose coloration resembles that of a leopard's fur.
- monkey slugsplural of monkey slug: The larva of the hag moth.
- pancake slugsplural of pancake slug: The slug Veronicella sloanii.
- pear slugsplural of pear slug: The larva of the sawfly Caliroa cerasi, a major pest of fruit trees.
- rainbow slugsplural of rainbow slug: A purple, yellow and pink sea slug of species Babakina anadoni.
- road slugsplural of road slug: A kind of slug (locomotive accessory) intended to serve as part of a regular locomotive consist for road haulage.
- rose slugsplural of rose slug: The larvae of various species of sawfly that feed on rose plant leaves.
- slugs awaythird-person singular simple present indicative of slug away: To work very hard (at); to toil
- slugs outthird-person singular simple present indicative of slug out: To engage in a match, fight, battle, argument or competition.
- solid slugsplural of solid slug: shotgun cartridge with a single projectile
- yard slugsplural of yard slug: A slug (locomotive accessory) designed for switching; it has a low body, and no cab, in order to allow an engineer or driver in a powered unit to the rear to see past it.
- yellow slugsplural of yellow slug: Limax flavus (syn. Limacus flavus), a species of air-breathing land slug with a yellow body.
- lettuce sea slugsplural of lettuce sea slug: A species of large sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia crispata, ranging in colours from green, blue, or very pale with red lines or yellow lines.
- red triangle slugsplural of red triangle slug: Triboniophorus graeffei, a large air-breathing land slug in the family Athoracophoridae.
- slugs it outthird-person singular simple present indicative of slug it out: To have an intense argument or fight until one side prevails.
- variable neon slugsplural of variable neon slug: A species of dorid nudibranch, Nembrotha kubaryana, occurring in the tropical Western Indo-Pacific.
- rifled slugsplural of rifled slug: A shotgun cartridge having only a single projectile, with oblique grooves on the projectile causing it to spin and thus increasing accuracy.
Compound words 5
- mantleslugsplural of mantleslug: Any of several air-breathing land slugs of the genera Philomycus or Pallifera.
- outslugsthird-person singular simple present indicative of outslug: To score more runs than.
- preslugsplural of preslug: A substance injected into water contaminated with oil to facilitate the subsequent process of recovering the oil from the water.
- roseslugsplural of roseslug: The larvae of various species of sawfly that feed on rose plant leaves.
- semislugsplural of semislug: A land gastropod whose shell is too small to retract into, but not vestigial.