What is a slug?

Question

I\'m currently working through CodeIgniters tutorial in its fantastic documentation. However there is a term that is frequently used and it\'s called a \"slug\". I\'ve looke

Answer 1

"slug" is totally context dependent word, but in programming or as far as this question is concerned here "slug" refers to a URL. We know that a URL can't contain every character. That's why when any post, page, controller have these typed to title so its slug is used as URL. Which might be automatically derived.

So in one line, slug is a URL friendly version of any name.