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

noun

1. a tiring hike or walk
2. long exhausting work
3. a heavy blow or swipe

Derived Forms

• ˈslogger, noun

Other Words From

• slogger noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of slog¹

First recorded in 1850–55; variant of slug ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of slog¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

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

From Outside Online

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

From Washington Post

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.

From Quanta Magazine

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

"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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• lumber
• toil
• tramp
• trudge