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slog
verb- to work hard at something UK, 1888
- I mean, it really is a bit of a slog, slogging all the way, across the old Channel every weekend, just to get your oats. — Mike Stott, Soldiers Talking, Cleanly, 1978
- to punch someone UK, 1824
- If I’d stood up and slogged him, our steaks would have gone cold. — Dick Francis, Risk, p. 130, 1993
- to walk heavily UK, 1872
From obsolete “foot-slogger” (an infantryman, a pedestrian). - I parked in my lot and slogged up to my apartment, leaving puddles in my wake. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 97, 2001
▶ slog it out
to work hard at some activity AUSTRALIA
An elaboration of SLOGI came over here after sloggin’ it our on the Snowy Mountain Opera Project in Australia. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971▶ slog your guts out
to work hard at something UK, 1984
An intensification of SLOG.- I was slogging my guts out for next to nothing. I began to wonder why. — Peter Woods, Teacher Skills and Strategies, 1990
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