34 Synonyms for « slugs »

The lacquey, aware of comment, shook the lolling clapper of his bell but feebly:—Bang!

Rare: bash; <reverse slant>; reversed virgule; backslat.

He’s gone off like a bat out of hell.”

Synonyms: bastinado, chastise, overcome, spank, thrash, batter, conquer, pommel, strike, vanquish, belabor, cudgel, pound, surpass, whip, bruise, defeat, scourge, switch, worst.

Lincoln was the winner; Douglas afterwards beat him for the United States Senate, but Lincoln went to the White House.

The low cut bodice was a deep purple and it had a large, bright pink belt.

Whenever Mrs. Rawdon wished to be particularly humble and virtuous, this little shirt used to come out of her work-box.

Bump his back, shepherd."

Or maybe he's betting that the game Gods will just raise the price on everything and make it harder to clobber enough monsters to raise the gold to get it, driving away all but the hardest-core players, who'll pay anything to get their hands on the dough.

If my sympathies need quickening, my point of view adjusting, I have only to go down to Park Row at eventide, when the crowds are hurrying homeward and the City Hall clock is lighted, particularly when the snow lies on the grass in the park, and stand watching them awhile, to find all things coming right.

The cub snarled a little at the touch of the hand, and the hand flew back to administer a clout.

Power certainly accrues to those who covet it and the proof of the pudding is that all of the powerful club we have approached have refused to assist in the very new concept of truly Universal Education.

I never see the nigger, yet, I couldn’t bring down with one crack,” said he, bringing his fist down so near to the face of Tom that he winked and drew back. “

I tried to pull my legs, my arms, but I could do nothing but flail.

"Pitch into 'em, Hodson," roared the baronet; "flog their little souls out, and bring 'em up to the house, the vagabonds; I'll commit 'em as sure as my name's Pitt."

To be honest I was waiting for the hammer to fall.

a Goat standing near Bad Bone muttered, emphasizing the comment with a sharp jab in Bad Bone’s ribs. “

And still, there wasn't a hint of sound-no knock, no cough, not even a shuffle from the God King.

According to his method, the chapter on the connexion between making the thoughts sincere and so rectifying the mental nature, should be preceded by one on the completion of knowledge as the means of making the thoughts sincere, and that again by one on the completion of knowledge by the investigation of things, or whatever else the phrase ko wu may mean.

“So far as I can follow you, then, Mr. Holmes,” said Sir Henry Baskerville, “someone cut out this message with a scissors—”“Nail-scissors,” said Holmes. “

The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no greatcoat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blind man's-buff.

At the sight of Tommy, Julius’s eyes seemed as though they would pop out of his head.

42:019:016 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days.

I heard the outer door slam behind Frank Woods and a motor start.

Camon raised a bejeweled hand, and Vin braced herself for another slap.

The air was yet thick with moisture, though somewhat less dense than during the afternoon, and a steady smack of drops upon the fallen leaves under the boughs was almost musical in its soothing regularity.

You looked for my sock.... And you know Razumihin has lost his heart to you?

Aft and opposite, the bulkhead waited to swat him like an insect.

Others of the above words describe the manner of beating, as bastinado, to beat on the soles of the feet; belabor, to inflict a comprehensive and exhaustive beating; cudgel, to beat with a stick; thrash, as wheat was beaten out with the old hand-flail; to pound (akin to L. pondus, a weight) is to beat with a heavy, and pommel with a blunt, instrument.

And then—thwack!

Wallop.

Smash, and then whack of boards hit hard came from downstairs.

Excusing myself, sir, but where’d I find the Whale freighting station?”