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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably a variation of slug or slough.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Noun[edit]
slog (plural slogs)
- (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
- 2018 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News[1]:
- England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.
- (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
Verb[edit]
slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)
- To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
- A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
- (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:walk
Translations[edit]
to walk slowly, encountering resistance
to work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom)
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to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Verb[edit]
slog
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
slȍg m (Cyrillic spelling сло̏г)
Declension[edit]
Declension of slog
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
slog
- past tense of slå.
