"slog" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /slɒɡ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /slɑɡ/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-slog.ogg [Australia] Forms: slogs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒɡ Etymology: Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough. Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition. Etymology templates: {{m|en|slug|id=to hit|t=to hit very hard}} slug (“to hit very hard”), {{m|en|slough}} slough, {{m|sv|slag}} slag Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)
  1. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march. Tags: Australia, British, Canada, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-slog-en-noun-jF3rksri Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Canadian English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 26 28 10 10 1
  2. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period. Tags: Australia, British, Canada, broadly, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Gaits
    Sense id: en-slog-en-noun-tVA4wka- Disambiguation of Gaits: 9 27 19 23 17 6 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Canadian English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 26 28 10 10 1
  3. (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Cricket, Gaits
    Sense id: en-slog-en-noun-L9yhWbxp Disambiguation of Gaits: 9 27 19 23 17 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 19 37 13 13 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 26 28 10 10 1 Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Verb

IPA: /slɒɡ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /slɑɡ/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-slog.ogg [Australia] Forms: slogs [present, singular, third-person], slogging [participle, present], slogged [participle, past], slogged [past]
Rhymes: -ɒɡ Etymology: Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough. Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition. Etymology templates: {{m|en|slug|id=to hit|t=to hit very hard}} slug (“to hit very hard”), {{m|en|slough}} slough, {{m|sv|slag}} slag Head templates: {{en-verb}} slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)
  1. (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Gaits Synonyms: walk Translations (to walk slowly, encountering resistance): влача се (vlača se) (Bulgarian), ase (Danish), okse (Danish), traske (Danish), raahustaa (Finnish), löntystellä (Finnish), arrancare (Italian), camminare a fatica (Italian), taszczyć się (Polish), идти́ impf с трудом (s) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-slog-en-verb-PRA1Z3u6 Disambiguation of Gaits: 9 27 19 23 17 6 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 26 28 10 10 1 Disambiguation of 'to walk slowly, encountering resistance': 74 26 0
  2. (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task. Tags: broadly, intransitive Categories (topical): Gaits Translations (to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task): бъхтя се (bǎhtja se) (Bulgarian), вка́лывать (vkályvatʹ) (Russian), pencar [Spain, colloquial] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-slog-en-verb-2weFUw~0 Disambiguation of Gaits: 9 27 19 23 17 6 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 26 28 10 10 1 Disambiguation of 'to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task': 11 89 0
  3. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat. Translations (to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat): удрям силно (udrjam silno) (Bulgarian), kumauttaa (Finnish), iskeä (Finnish), huitaista (Finnish), verprügeln (German)
    Sense id: en-slog-en-verb-XmLQZvCE Disambiguation of 'to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat': 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: footslog, slog one's guts out, slog-sweep

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.\nPossibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A long, tedious walk or march."
      ],
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        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
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        ],
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        ]
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        "(countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "British",
        "Canada",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
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        {
          "ref": "1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times",
          "text": "There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period."
      ],
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        [
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          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "persistent",
          "persistent"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "session",
          "session"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "British",
        "Canada",
        "broadly",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An aggressive shot played with little skill."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cricket",
          "cricket"
        ],
        [
          "aggressive",
          "aggressive"
        ],
        [
          "shot",
          "shot"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "cricket",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/slɒɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/slɑɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒɡ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-slog.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/En-au-slog.ogg/En-au-slog.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/En-au-slog.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "slog"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒɡ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒɡ/1 syllable",
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  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "footslog"
    },
    {
      "word": "slog one's guts out"
    },
    {
      "word": "slog-sweep"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "m"
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      "name": "m"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.\nPossibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419",
          "text": "The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text\nA miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”"
        }
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        "To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance."
      ],
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          "slowly"
        ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "walk"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task."
      ],
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          "tedious",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat."
      ],
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          "strike"
        ],
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          "heavy"
        ],
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          "blow",
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          "ball",
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɒɡ"
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/En-au-slog.ogg/En-au-slog.ogg.mp3",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vlača se",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "влача се"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "ase"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "okse"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "traske"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "raahustaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "löntystellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "arrancare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "camminare a fatica"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "taszczyć się"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "s",
      "sense": "to walk slowly, encountering resistance",
      "word": "идти́ impf с трудом"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bǎhtja se",
      "sense": "to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task",
      "word": "бъхтя се"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vkályvatʹ",
      "sense": "to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task",
      "word": "вка́лывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "pencar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "udrjam silno",
      "sense": "to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat",
      "word": "удрям силно"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat",
      "word": "kumauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat",
      "word": "iskeä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat",
      "word": "huitaista"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat",
      "word": "verprügeln"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slog"
}
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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": idtí s trudóm vs. trudom",
  "path": [
    "slog"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "slog",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": trudom vs. idtí",
  "path": [
    "slog"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "slog",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": idtí vs. s",
  "path": [
    "slog"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "slog",
  "trace": ""
}

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