slog

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verb

slogged; slogging

transitive verb

1
: to hit hard : beat
2
: to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty

intransitive verb

1
: to plod heavily : tramp
slogged through the snow
2
: to work hard and steadily : plug
slogger noun

slog

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noun

1
a
: hard persistent work
the endless enervating slog of warMichael Gorra
b
: a prolonged arduous task or effort
reform will be a hard political slogM. S. Forbes
2
: a hard dogged march or journey

Examples of slog in a Sentence

Verb He slogged away at the paperwork all day. She slogged through her work. She slogged her way through her work. We've been slogging along for hours. He slogged through the deep snow. They slogged their way through the snow. Noun It will be a long, hard slog before everything is back to normal. It was a long slog up the mountain.
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Verb
The year before Queen arrived on campus, Maryland slogged through a 16-17 campaign. Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025 The serial killer known as the Night Stalker, a professed Satanist, had been sentenced to death a year before, and the McMartin Preschool molestation case, with its wild claims of ritual abuse of children, was still slogging through the courts. Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
Did your mind wander during time at camp, during slogs uphill, or were these things put inside of a box placed deep within the basement of your being and just shoved down at any time? Outside Online, 28 May 2025 Congress is already deep into the slog of drafting Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered funds for the administration’s mass deportation effort — a package that, unlike the budget plan, would carry the force of law. Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for slog

Word History

Etymology

Verb

origin unknown

First Known Use

Verb

1824, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Noun

1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of slog was in 1824

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Cite this Entry

“Slog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

Kids Definition

slog

verb
ˈsläg
slogged; slogging
1
: to hit hard : beat
2
: to work in a steady determined manner
slogger noun

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