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US
/ˈsɫɑɡ/
]
[ UK /slˈɒɡ/ ]
[ UK /slˈɒɡ/ ]
VERB
-
strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
He slugged me so hard that I passed out -
work doggedly or persistently
She keeps plugging away at her dissertation -
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone
How To Use slog In A Sentence
- Many shops and businesses were shut while crowds blocked traffic and chanted anti-government slogans. Times, Sunday Times
- Slogging up the alpine tracks, another decision was made. Times, Sunday Times
- There is actually a dishonesty, really, about that slogan that says to keep it in the laboratory and it will be OK.
- No one builds a jingle or a slogan or even a brand identity using web advertising.
- The "freedom to learn" has become just another one of the government's empty slogans.
- Such a slogan will bind us hand and foot.
- Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
- Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
- Was a five-set slogging match in oppressive heat what the heart specialists would have recommended? Times, Sunday Times
- They're the sprinters, he says, whereas malamutes are sloggers, which were used in days of yore for hauling heavy freight.