Slog vs. Slug — What's the Difference?

Slog refers to a type of shot in many forms of cricket where the batsman attempts to hit the ball as far as possible with the aim to hit a six or at the least a four. It is an extremely dangerous shot to play since the ball is almost certainly going to be in the air for a long period of time and great technique and power is required from the batsman to actually clear the field.The word 'slog' carries a negative connotation, as it implies 'power hitting over grace and correct technique'.When playing a 'Slog', a batsman is likely to want to score quickly therefore it is likely to be used in a Twenty20, Pro40 or one day match.

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).

To walk or progress with a slow heavy pace; plod

A round bullet larger than buckshot.

To work diligently for long hours

A shot of liquor.

To make (one's way) with a slow heavy pace against resistance.

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

To strike with heavy blows.

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

A long exhausting march or hike

A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing.

A long session of hard work

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

A long, tedious walk or march.

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

A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.

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

An aggressive shot played with little skill.

(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.

(intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.

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 work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.

A sea slug.

To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

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

To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug.

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

To walk heavily; to plod; to walk through resisting terrain, as in mud.

(Informal) A sluggard.

To work steadily and ploddingly; to toil.

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

Work doggedly or persistently;

A commuter who slugs.

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;

(Printing) To add slugs to.

Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

(Informal) To drink rapidly or in large gulps

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

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.

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

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

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

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

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

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

(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.

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.

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

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

(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.

(television editing) A black screen.

(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;