slug it out
idiom
informal
: to fight or compete over something until one side wins
The companies are slugging it out in court.
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Like a teapot on a slow boil, they are supposed to heat up gradually over many months, riding a rising tension that reaches its crescendo in its final weeks, as players or teams slug it out for that last jewel.
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Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Jake is welcome to come on Uncensored to discuss this, and verbally slug it out with me, anytime.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Trump is staying neutral in the Senate primary as Cornyn and Paxton slug it out.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 July 2025
The more these guys trash-talk each other, suck up to each other, hug it out, slug it out, undermine and over-inflate their respective achievements, the more that Mountainhead sketches a picture of these Master of the Universe in a manner that occasionally draws blood.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2025
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Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Jake is welcome to come on Uncensored to discuss this, and verbally slug it out with me, anytime.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Trump is staying neutral in the Senate primary as Cornyn and Paxton slug it out.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 July 2025
The more these guys trash-talk each other, suck up to each other, hug it out, slug it out, undermine and over-inflate their respective achievements, the more that Mountainhead sketches a picture of these Master of the Universe in a manner that occasionally draws blood.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2025
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“Slug it out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slug%20it%20out. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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