slug out

verb7

1. •
   To engage in a match, fight, battle, argument or competition.

   • They slugged out two wins last month.
2. •
   To be fought or competed.

   • It was a victory slugged out by the French.
3. •
   (slang) To hit a ball.

   • He slugged out a homerun in the second inning.
4. •
   To add a slug (A block of text at the beginning of a scene), write a scene with a slug or write many slugs in a script.
5. •
   To write down with a typewriter.
6. •
   To add directions (such as for sound effects) to an animation script.
7. •
   (no longer used) To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).