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slog

[slog] verb, slogged, slog⋅ging. noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.
2. to drive with blows.
–verb (used without object)
3. to deal heavy blows.
4. to walk or plod heavily.
5. to toil.
–noun
6. a long, tiring walk or march.
7. long, laborious work.
8. a heavy blow.

Origin:
1850–55; var. of slug 2


slogger, noun
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slog   (slŏg)   
v.   slogged, slog·ging, slogs

v.   intr.
  1. To walk or progress with a slow heavy pace; plod: slog across the swamp; slogged through both volumes.

  2. To work diligently for long hours: slogged away at Latin.

v.   tr.
  1. To make (one's way) with a slow heavy pace against resistance.

  2. To strike with heavy blows.

n.  
  1. A long exhausting march or hike: a slog through miles of jungle.

  2. A long session of hard work: an 18-hour slog in the hay fields.


[Perhaps alteration of slug3.]
slog'ger 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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