slog

See also: slóg, sløg, and слог

English

Etymology

Probably a variation of slug or slough.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

slog (plural slogs)

1. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
   • 2019 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.

2. (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.

Verb

slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)

1. 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.”

2. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
3. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:walk

Translations

to walk slowly, encountering resistance

• Danish: ase, okse (da), traske
• Finnish: raahustaa, löntystellä (fi)

• Italian: arrancare (it), camminare a fatica
• Russian: идти́ (idtí) с (s) трудом (trudom) (idtí s trudóm)

to work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom)

• Russian: вка́лывать (ru) (vkályvatʹ)

to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat

• Finnish: kumauttaa, iskeä (fi), huitaista

• German: verprügeln (de)

Anagrams

• -logs, Glos, logs

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Danish

Verb

slog

1. past tense of slå

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

slȍg m (Cyrillic spelling сло̏г)

1. syllable
2. stack, pile

Declension

Declension of slog

	singular	plural
nominative	slog	slogovi
genitive	sloga	slogova
dative	slogu	slogovima
accusative	slog	slogove
vocative	slogu / slože	slogovi
locative	slogu	slogovima
instrumental	slogom	slogovima

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Swedish

Verb

slog

1. past tense of slå.