slug

Object

percentage: And baseball allows each player his own private measures of success: batting averages, slugging percentages and, of course, home runs.

Converse of object

• deter: Did you know coffee grinds are great for deterring slugs?
• eat: No worse than them eating too many slugs I suppose.
• kill: Kill the slugs = no eggs or destroy the eggs = no slugs.
• pick: Well, have to have something nice to think about whilst picking the horrible slugs off your brassicas!
• attract: These traps will only attract slugs from a nearby area.
• keep: Still the dry worked wonders keeping the slugs down.

Converse of subject

eat: The lettuce is eaten by the slug, the slug is eaten by the bird.

Adjective modifier

• gray: You can always see the lazy common seals lying about sunbathing like large gray slugs.
• dead: Dead slugs & snails left for a few days in water to ferment.
• black: There will be no big black slugs shot at, only the ones you shoot through your gun.

Modifies a noun

• pellet: Your post was timely, I shall sprinkle some slug pellets around them to keep them safe.
• traps: Use slug traps filled with beer or milk instead of pellets.
• bait: Check if your neighbors use slug bait especially if they are keen gardeners to be sure.
• deterrent: Is it purely as a pet, for eggs, as a snail and slug deterrent or for meat?
• killer: The Chemicals Slug pellets are probably the most used forms of chemical slug killers.
• trap: A slug trap, or slug pub, can be recessed in the soil, filled with either a commercial bait or beer.

Noun used with modifier

• sea: I discovered I don't like sea slug, however beautifully cooked.
• copper: You drop the now-empty shell into any glass, grin, and the copper slug is shinning BETWEEN YOUR TEETH!
• garden: I think I can answer some of these questions by considering the behavior of garden slugs living on a hard ceramic floor.