| sluggard | (n) an idle slothful person, Syn. slug |
| slugger | (n) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches, Syn. slogger |
| sluggish | (adj) moving slowly, Syn. sulky, Example: a sluggish stream |
| sluggishly | (adv) in a sluggish manner, Example: the smoke rose sluggishly |
| sluggishness | (n) the pace of things that move relatively slowly, Example: the sluggishness of the economy; the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold |
| Sluggard | a. Sluggish; lazy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sluggard | n. [ Slug + -ard. ] A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone. [ 1913 Webster ] Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sluggardize | v. t. To make lazy. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sluggardy | n. [ OE. sloggardye. ] The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ] Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Slugger | n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [ Cant or Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Slugging average | . (Baseball) a measure of the effectiveness of a batter at reaching base and advancing other runners, calculated as the sum of the number of bases reached on each hit, divided by the total number of times at bat. A double counts two bases, a triple three, a home run four. Thus a batter with four singles, two doubles and a triple in 20 official times at bat would have a |
| Slugging match | . |
| Sluggish | a. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ] And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ] -- |
| Sluggy | a. Sluggish. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |