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Show Many Forms of "Slug." "Slug," iib used In connection with college football, Is own bother to tho Kngl'.Hh "slog" and akin to "slay." Absolutely Ab-solutely dlfforeiit In origin ns In menn-Ing, menn-Ing, Is tho other verb, "slug," nllled to "slouch" and "slnck," which Sponsor used Intransitively when he wrote of "slugging all night In n rabln," and Milton transitively when ho declared that eplncopary "worses and sluggs tho most learned and seeming religious relig-ious of our ministers." Nobody knows to which of tho two families "slug," a crudely shaped bullet, belongs. Is it something with which ono slogs? Or something as heavy as a "slug," or "sluggish" porbon? Or was It supposed sup-posed to resemble tho slug that crawls In gardens? |