English

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Etymology

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Blend of slug +‎ inch

Noun

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slinch (plural slinches)

  1. (physics, informal) An English unit of mass equal to 12 slugs (386.088 pounds-mass), that accelerates by 1 inch per second squared (1 in/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.