CLEP College Composition Exam: Ability to Use Source Materials Practice Test 3 — Flashcards

slug n. 1. sluggard (a habitually lazy person) 2. A plastic or metal disk, lump, or cylinder of material such as a. A musket ball. b. A bullet. 3. Any of numerous chiefly terrestrial pulmonate gastropods (order Stylommatophora) that are found in most parts of the world where there is a reasonable supply of moisture and are closely related to land snails but are long and wormlike and have only a rudimentary shell often buried in the mantle or entirely absent. 4. a. A quantity of liquor drunk in one swallow. b. A detached mass of fluid that causes impact (as in a circulating system). [Middle English slugge, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dial. slugga to walk sluggishly.]
Which of the following statements is NOT supported by the definition above?