Home › Words › S › slugthrowerslugthrowerslugthrower means A firearm that fires bullets.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, slugthrower ranks #1,157 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom slug + thrower.nounA firearm that fires bullets.e.g.“He had been pulling the trigger of his slugthrower all this time, but now the firing pin clicked at last upon an empty firing chamber.” — 1965 December, Gordon R. Dickson, “Warrior”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 76, →ISSN, page 71:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).