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slogger

  • a word derived from slog.
    slog
    verb (used with object)
    to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.

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Harry Brook should study Root's thirst for runs and ask himself why he is batting like a glorified slogger.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

"He's not a slogger, is he? He's playing proper shots," was how Brook put it succinctly.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025

But now he is a tubby slogger who just happens to have played one of the greatest innings in the history of ODI cricket.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011

I like to think I can hit the ball hard but I don't like to see myself as a slogger.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2010

Tom felt the wisdom of the counsel, and saw already that he couldn't go in and finish the slogger off at mere hammer and tongs, so changed his tactics completely in the third round.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 by Charles Herbert Sylvester