Word Study
slog
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb slog has 3 senses
- slog(v = verb.social) keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, peg away, plug away - work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" is one way to work
- slog(v = verb.motion) footslog, pad, plod, tramp, trudge - walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" is one way to walk
- slog(v = verb.contact) slug, swig - strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" is one way to hit
Derived form noun slogger2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sample sentence:
They slog up the hill
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to slog his opponent
CIDE DICTIONARY
To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
slog, v. i.
- to walk heavily; to plod; to walk through resisting terrain, as in mud. [PJC]
- To work steadily and ploddingly; to toil. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slog, v. & n.
--v. (slogged, slogging)
1 intr. & tr. hit hard and usu. wildly esp. in boxing or at cricket.
2 intr. (often foll. by away, on) walk or work doggedly.
--n.
1 a hard random hit.
2 a hard steady work. b a spell of this.
--v. (slogged, slogging)
1 intr. & tr. hit hard and usu. wildly esp. in boxing or at cricket.
2 intr. (often foll. by away, on) walk or work doggedly.
--n.
1 a hard random hit.
2 a hard steady work. b a spell of this.
Derivative
slogger n.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. unkn.: cf. SLUG(2)
THESAURUS
slog
amble, bang, barge, bash, bat, belt, biff, bonk, bowl along, bundle, catch, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, drag, drudge, fag, fetch, fetch a blow, flounce, foot, footslog, grind, grub, halt, hammer, hammer away, hippety-hop, hit, hit a clip, hitch, hobble, hop, jab, jog, jolt, jump, keep doggedly at, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, moil, muck, nail, pace, paddle, paste, peg, peg away, piaffe, piaffer, plod, plug, plug along, plug at, plug away, plunk, poke, pound away, prance, punch, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slam, slave, slink, slither, slog away, slop, slouch, slug, smack, smite, snap, soak, sock, stagger, stalk, stamp, stodge, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, strike at, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swat, swing, swipe, thump, thwack, tittup, toddle, toil, totter, traipse, trash, travail, trip, trudge, waddle, wade through, wallop, wamble, whack, wham, whop, wiggle, wobble, work away, yerk
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