Flog

Quick meaning: Flog is a verb meaning (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.

Meaning

(transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
2. (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.
3. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
4. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
5. (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
6. (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
7. (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.

Example Sentences

It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged by a team that got flogged by a team that got flogged by the Bulldogs.

Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.

The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers

Flanders was able to flog his piece of land, for which he had originally paid £4,000, to one of the largest gold-mining corporations for something like a couple of million smackers.

Word Forms

• flogs
• flogging
• flogged

Synonyms for flog

Depending on context, synonyms include spamblog, splog, lash, thrash, belt, birch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lash, slash, whip, trounce, strap, welt.

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