Coin vs. Slug — What's the Difference?

A coin is a small, flat, (usually, depending on the country or value) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade.

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract its soft parts into the shell).

A flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money

A round bullet larger than buckshot.

Make (coins) by stamping metal

A shot of liquor.

Invent (a new word or phrase)

An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.

A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.

A small metal disk for use in a vending or gambling machine, especially one used illegally.

Metal money considered as a whole.

A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing.

A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money

A strip of type metal, less than type-high and thicker than a lead, used for spacing.

A mode of expression considered standard

A line of cast type in a single strip of metal.

Variant of quoin.

A compositor's type line of identifying marks or instructions, inserted temporarily in copy.

To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike

(Physics) The British unit of mass that accelerates at the rate of one foot per second per second when acted on by a force of one pound on the surface of the Earth.

To make pieces of money from (metal)

Any of various terrestrial gastropod mollusks having a slow-moving slimy elongated body with no shell or with a flat rudimentary shell on or under the skin, usually found in moist habitats.

To devise (a new word or phrase).

A sea slug.

Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation

The smooth soft larva of certain insects, such as the sawfly.

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

A slimy mass of aggregated amoeboid cells that develops into the spore-bearing fruiting body of a cellular slime mold.

A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

(Informal) A sluggard.

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

A hard heavy blow, as with the fist or a baseball bat.

Money in general, not limited to coins.

A commuter who slugs.

(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

(Printing) To add slugs to.

A corner or external angle.

(Informal) To drink rapidly or in large gulps

A small circular slice of food.

To strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.

A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.

To wait for or obtain a ride to work by standing at a roadside hoping to be picked up by a driver who needs another passenger to use the HOV lanes of a highway.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; - much used in a collective sense.

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

That which serves for payment or recompense.

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

A metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

(railroading) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.

Of phrases or words

(television editing) A black screen.

Form by stamping, punching, or printing;

(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

A hitchhiking commuter.

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

A ship that sails slowly.

To hit A hard blow, usually with the fist.

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

To make sluggish.

(transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

A hindrance; an obstruction.

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

A ship that sails slowly.

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

To move slowly; to lie idle.

To make sluggish.

To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

To strike heavily.

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

A projectile that is fired from a gun

An idle slothful person

Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

Be idle; exist in a changeless situation;