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Blend
of
slug
+
inch
Noun
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slinch
(
plural
slinches
)
(
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.
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