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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slog
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A soaking wet Connors pushed open the flap and slogged inside.
▪ A truck came down the line picking us up and slogged to a stop in front of his ship.
▪ And the defense team, slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.
▪ But then, so do the 49ers as they slog their way through three more utterly meaningless games.
▪ Occasionally he would step down the wicket and slog my straight medium pacer straight and high over my head.
▪ Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant, grim-faced and tight-lipped, to slog on alone.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
▪ The first aspect that presents itself is one of sheer hard slog!
▪ The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
▪ It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!
▪ From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!
▪ The season had been a hard slog and he felt a break was in the player's interests.
▪ Then came Edinburgh and the long hard slog of a medical degree and the various hospital training jobs that followed.
▪ Just hard slog to move up the world rankings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The campaign promises to be a long, hard slog.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was also going to be a boring slog.
▪ From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!
▪ It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!
▪ Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.
▪ The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slog

Slog \Slog\ (sl[o^]g), v. t. & i. [Cf. Slug, v. t.] To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug. [Cant or Slang]

Slog

Slog \Slog\ (sl[o^]g), v. i.

  1. to walk heavily; to plod; to walk through resisting terrain, as in mud.

  2. To work steadily and ploddingly; to toil.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slog

1824, "hit hard," probably a variant of slug (v.3) "to strike." Sense of "walk doggedly" first recorded 1872. Related: Slogged; slogger; slogging.

slog

1846, "a hard hit," from slog (v.). Sense of "spell of hard work" is from 1888.

Wiktionary
slog

n. 1 (context chiefly British and Canada English) A long, tedious walk, or session of work. 2 (context cricket English) An aggressive shot played with little skill. vb. 1 To walk slowly, encountering resistance. 2 (context by extension English) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom). 3 To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

WordNet
slog
  1. v. work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" [syn: plug away, peg away, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel]

  2. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]

  3. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" [syn: slug, swig]

  4. [also: slogging, slogged]

Wikipedia
Slog

Slog refers to a type of shot in many forms of cricket where the batsman attempts to hit the ball as far as possible with the aim to hit a six or at the least a four. It is an extremely dangerous shot to play since the ball is almost certainly going to be in the air for a long period of time and great technique and power is required from the batsman to actually clear the field.

A slog carries a negative connotation in that it implies power hitting over grace and correct technique.

When playing a 'Slog', a batsman is likely to want to score quickly therefore it is likely to be used in a Twenty20, Pro40 or one day match. A slog can also be useful in test cricket if a team has a good lead and needs to declare so it has as much time as possible to bowl the opposition players out. The slog can be risky. Firstly there is a high possibility of missing the ball with the bat and simply getting bowled. LBWs are also common when playing the slog but if contact is made there is no guarantee that the ball will simply not loop up to a fielder. A slog is therefore likely to be played in times of desperation when runs are required extremely quickly or in variations of the game such as 'Plank Cricket' where continuous defensive shots are frowned upon and may even result in disqualification.

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Slog (disambiguation)

A slog is a type of shot in the game cricket.

Slog may also be:

  • A super-logarithm, the inverse function of super-exponentiation
  • A creature of fictional Oddworld
  • A blog run by Seattle alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger
  • Slog, a fictional character in Toyline Transformers: Age of Extinction

Usage examples of "slog".

Aubrey forgot his resolution not to hit a smaller man, and also calling upon his patron saints--the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World-- he delivered a smashing slog which hit the bookseller in the chest and jolted him half across the alley.

South Coquille grew more swollen with every mile they slogged, as streamlets joined in from the enclosing hills.

Abner Dowling slogged through freezing Tennessee mud from his tent toward the farmhouse where the general commanding the U.

If any godling or godlet or godkin is really determined to find me, he can slog through the marshlands after me.

I kicked aside a drowned field mouse and slogged toward the former residence of the Hickle clan.

So she slogged her way through the camp mostly by memory and was herself grateful to Idra for insisting on an orderly camp, laid out neatly, in proper rows.

A lone man slogged along the wave-beaten sand toward where he and Lockram languished.

The ground shifted under him, and suddenly he slipped down a pebbly slope and found himself slogging through calf-deep drifts of sand.

He waved back across the rolling marshland and started to slog towards him, avoiding the open water and overly lush regions of vegetation that indicated sink pits which could very well be bottomless.

Tarpy to Patrel as the Warrows slogged through the snow, now calf-deep, leading the ponies and giving the animals a respite.

Then it would be a matter of slogging through the Washington-area trucking centers, looking for that propane truck.

Duffy slogged down the flooded corridor at the fastest pace he could manage, his muscles burning with fatigue as he forced himself forward through the thick semifluid hydrogen.

For there, down the long white road, was the head of the approaching column -- kilts and sporans swinging to the time, white gaiters slogging up and down, tartan ribbons aflutter on the pipes, and the bass-drummer with his leopard-skin apron whirling his sticks cross-armed, overhead, and behind him in the wild inimitable Highland manner!

So by the time Tanna and Kyra had slogged the last few feet to the tent, the sentry was standing at ease, the door flap was unlaced, and Sewen was ready to hold it open for them against the wind.

They slogged back, collecting Amri, who was patiently waiting for them.