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a self-greasing tongue with the soul of a snail who quit
means A slug is a slow-moving, shell-less land mollusk that leaves a trail of slime, or by extension a sluggish person, a lump of metal, or a single drink swallowed in one gulp.
from From Middle English 'slugge,' meaning a lazy or slow person, likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare Norwegian dialect 'slugg,' a heavy, slow body. The creeping garden creature only took the name later, around the 18th century, because it embodied the same unhurried laziness. The senses for a lump of metal (and the bullet kind) and the boxing 'slug' grew from the idea of a heavy, formless mass or a heavy blow, with 'slug' meaning 'to hit hard' appearing in 19th-century American slang.
- slime trail
- can rappel down threads of their own mucus
- teeth count
- thousands of microscopic teeth on a rasping ribbon
- breathing hole
- one nostril-like pneumostome on the right side
- vestigial shell
- many carry tiny internal shell remnants
- love darts
- some stab mates with calcium daggers during courtship
leopard slug — limax maximus, largest land slug species found across europe reaching 20cm length
banana slug — ariolimax dolichophallus, bright yellow species native to pacific coast forests of north america
spanish slug — limax marmoratus, invasive species in uk and ireland since 1970s causing garden damage