slugging Definition

to add a printer's slug to

to drink in gulps —often used with down

to strike heavily with or as if with the fist or a bat

fight —usually used in the phrase slug it out

a statistic that reflects a batter's ability to get extra-base hits and that is expressed as a ratio (such as a rate per thousand) of the total number of bases reached on base hits (with one base for a single, two for a double, three for a triple, and four for a home run) to official times at bat