preslug verb 3noun 1forms 3 verb3 •To give a title, header, or catchline before writing the piece.I came to Virginia from Bloomington, Indiana, where I had gone in pursuit of a story we at the Tatler had preslugged "The Violence Teachers." — 1995 •To preprint on a form with automatically-generated individual identifying information.The new system "preslugs" the students' ID and its attendant information on an optical scanning form when they take a test. — 1980 •To compress (fuel) into pellets before use.Los Alamos concluded that the use of preslugged material is beneficial, 10 tsi is the optimum pressing pressure, and binders are not necessary. — 1970 noun1 •A substance injected into water contaminated with oil to facilitate the subsequent process of recovering the oil from the water.A preslug of brine solution is often used to condition the reservoir by displacing the reservoir brine. — 1983 formspreslugged · preslugging · preslugs
