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slog

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verb (used with object)

to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.

to drive with blows.

verb (used without object)

to deal heavy blows.

to walk or plod heavily.

to toil.

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noun

a long, tiring walk or march.

long, laborious work.

a heavy blow.

Origin:
1850–55; variant of slug²

Related forms

slog·ger, noun

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All along you'll have to slog through courses unrelated to the fund-raising profession.

Meanwhile, the painful slog to qualify for the single currency is nearly over.

The slog down to the equator is the opportunity to put yourself in the best possible place for crossing the doldrums.

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All along you'll have to slog through courses unrelated to the fund-raising profession.

Meanwhile, the painful slog to qualify for the single currency is nearly over.

The slog down to the equator is the opportunity to put yourself in the best possible place for crossing the doldrums.

But public trust must be there from the beginning, or this will be a long uphill slog.

For years, reporters and researchers have had to slog through several poorly designed and piecemeal electronic warehouses.

Try to keep this in mind as you slog through those early semesters preparing a course for the first time.

The alternative course, and the one he put forward this week, is to slog it out.

Headache and nausea make the slog extra slow and torturous for him.

It'll be a hard slog at first, but that's better than having a hard slog for an unknown number of generations.

What started as a way to make some easy money has turned out to be an unrelenting slog with little financial reward.

Since there are no quick fixes, it had better reconcile itself to the long slog.

Life is hard, and mammals need their z's to slog through it.

The hard slog and poor conditions probably contributed to her early death.

And there will always be people who, for whatever reason, want to slog through traffic riding solo.

The recovery will be a longer slog than many expect.

As a treacherous slog through deep, unmapped, toxic-fume-filled caverns.

Outside the dotcom industry, though, raising money is more of a slog.

Meltofte invited me to slog through sticky, shoreline mud for an early-morning bird survey.

Now it's going to be a long slow slog to get back to a more reasonable level of indebtedness.

I've finished reading it about an hour agoand it's a slog.

So he decided to do something other than slog his way through the remaining two years or drop out.

Other useful swigs to take with you on the slog back through the stadium parking lot:.

It seems to help them slog all the way through the tests without resorting to randomly filling in the bubbles.

The long slog of graduate school and then job hunting can produce resentments as well as angst.

Determined readers of it will have to slog through a remarkably pretentious introduction.

The slow slog of attracting depositors can be off-putting, however, and may become harder if the crisis deepens.

And while that might not be the same as a cure, it can lighten the slog and uncertainty of treatment.

I've read the book and did not find it a slog at all.

What should be a season of triumph is shaping up as a long slog through second-guessing and doubt.

High pay in the lower ranks of the bank may in any case weaken the incentive to slog up the management ladder.

Angel's discovery, there is no need to slog weeks through the rain forest to glimpse the falls that now bear his name.

Europe will have a long slog getting out from under the financial disaster it created.

The album is both a product of her slog through the rock underground and an exit from it.

S if you want to see a country that is ripe for a long slog in recovery from economic doldrums.

They slog through the same rigorous travel schedule.

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World English Dictionary

slog (slɒɡ)

—vb , slogs, slogging, slogged
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

—n
5.	a tiring hike or walk
6.	long exhausting work
7.	a heavy blow or swipe

[C19: of unknown origin]

'slogger

—n

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Word Origin & History

slog

1824, "hit hard," probably variant of slug (3) "to strike." Sense of "walk doggedly" first recorded 1872; noun sense of "hard work" is from 1888.

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