Plod

Quick meaning: Plod is a noun meaning A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

Meaning

A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
3. (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
4. (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
5. (UK, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
6. (UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
7. (obsolete) A puddle.

Example Sentences

On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.

We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

Word Forms

• plods
• plodding
• plodded

Synonyms for plod

Depending on context, synonyms include police, trudge, slog, pad, footslog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slog, trudge, footslog, pad, drudge, crawl.

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