slog
Americanverb (used with object)
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to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.
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to drive with blows.
verb (used without object)
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to deal heavy blows.
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to walk or plod heavily.
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to toil.
noun
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a long, tiring walk or march.
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long, laborious work.
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a heavy blow.
verb
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to hit with heavy blows, as in boxing
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(intr) to work hard; toil
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(intr; foll by down, up, along, etc) to move with difficulty; plod
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cricket to score freely by taking large swipes at the ball
noun
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a tiring hike or walk
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long exhausting work
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a heavy blow or swipe
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have sloggedperfect
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has sloggedperfect 3rd person singular
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has been sloggingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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am sloggingprogressive 1st person singular
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are sloggingprogressive
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is sloggingprogressive 3rd person singular
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have been sloggingperfect progressive
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slogssingular 3rd person
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sloggingparticiple
Past
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had sloggedperfect
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was sloggingprogressive singular
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were sloggingprogressive plural
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had been sloggingperfect progressive
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sloggedsimple
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sloggedparticiple
Future
Etymology
Origin of slog
First recorded in 1850–55; variant of slug 2
Explanation
When you slog, you toil at something, working hard and often slowly to get a difficult job done. You might slog with your shovel through the pile of snow in your driveway. A worker might slog through a pile of papers on her desk, or slog long and hard on a construction crew. In either case, the job requires persistence and determination. Another way to slog is to walk with difficulty, the way someone might slog along a muddy road to the gas station after getting a flat tire. The original meaning of slog was "hit hard," possibly as a variation of slug.
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Example Sentences
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It has been a real slog, the first time many in the dressing room have experienced a mentally-draining 58-game season.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
None of this has changed the parts of my work that I actually liked before or felt were valuable to my process to slog through.
From Slate • May 24, 2026
Taken as a whole, Drake’s album dump is a deeply unpleasant slog.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
Between the team’s low-scoring style, its palpable stress, and the crushing weight of three consecutive late-season collapses, the final weeks of Arsenal’s league campaign turned into a bruising slog.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Only once he had calmed down did we slog to the dark spot that meant land.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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