Slog

Quick meaning: Slog is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.

Meaning

(countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.

More Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
2. (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
3. (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
4. (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
5. (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
6. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

Example Sentences

It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.

It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.

Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal” books to “avoid ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it.”

There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.

Word Forms

• slogs
• slogging
• slogged

Synonyms for slog

Depending on context, synonyms include ambulate, pedestrianize, raik, trudge, plod, slug.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plod, trudge, footslog, pad, swig, slug.

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