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slog

[ slog ]

verb (used with object)

, slogged, slog·ging.
  1. to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.
  2. to drive with blows.


verb (used without object)

, slogged, slog·ging.
  1. to deal heavy blows.
  2. to walk or plod heavily.
  3. to toil.

noun

  1. a long, tiring walk or march.
  2. long, laborious work.
  3. a heavy blow.

slog

/ slɒɡ /

verb

  1. to hit with heavy blows, as in boxing
  2. intr to work hard; toil
  3. intr; foll by down, up, along, etc to move with difficulty; plod
  4. cricket to score freely by taking large swipes at the ball
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a tiring hike or walk
  2. long exhausting work
  3. a heavy blow or swipe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈslogger, noun
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Other Words From

  • slogger noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slog1

First recorded in 1850–55; variant of slug 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slog1

C19: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

The 50 millimeters of foam underfoot also virtually eliminated the chronic knee and hip pain I typically experience after long downhill slogs.

The winner of the Grade I Santa Anita Derby is built for the 1½-mile slog at the Belmont.

Diplomats should work hard to revive it, but it will be a steep, uphill slog.

From Ozy

Just writing down the formulas for simple gravitational affairs is a slog.

The unending slog of poverty is also a major risk factor for postpartum depression, with little problems snowballing.

From Time

Neither, too, was as chilling, as affecting, or, at times, as much of a slog.

These are, in mechanical terms, simple fixes; politically, a nigh-impossible slog.

It is a mighty tough slog, I will have to give them that, written in terse and exclusive science-ese.

Still, the Oklahoma House speaker has a long slog before him.

But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog.

Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.

Reason dictates that I should foot-slog it to Bloodstock and try and get the police moving; but I can't leave you here.

Then turn to again with a will, slog away till dusk, and so home to the old barn.

"I'll keep 'em on board and make 'em work their passage," he said to his mate, a mean chap by the name of Slog.

In his best day he gave an original etymology of the schoolboy-ism slog.

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