slog
verb /slɒɡ/
/slɑːɡ/
(informal)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they slog | /slɒɡ/ /slɑːɡ/ |
| he / she / it slogs | /slɒɡz/ /slɑːɡz/ |
| past simple slogged | /slɒɡd/ /slɑːɡd/ |
| past participle slogged | /slɒɡd/ /slɑːɡd/ |
| -ing form slogging | /ˈslɒɡɪŋ/ /ˈslɑːɡɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to work hard and steadily at something, especially something that takes a long time and is boring or difficult
- slog (away) (at something) He's been slogging away at that piece of music for weeks.
- slog (through something) The teacher made us slog through long lists of vocabulary.
- My mother slogged all her life for us.
- slog your way through something She slogged her way through four piles of ironing.
- [intransitive, transitive] to walk or travel somewhere steadily, with great effort or difficulty
- + adv./prep. I've been slogging around the streets of London all day.
- slog your way through something He started to slog his way through the undergrowth.
- [transitive, intransitive] slog (something) (+ adv./prep.) to hit a ball very hard but often without skill
Word Originearly 19th cent.: of unknown origin; compare with the verb slug.
Idioms
slog/sweat/work your guts out
- (informal) to work very hard to achieve something
- I slogged my guts out for the exam.
slog it out
- (British English, informal) to fight or compete in order to prove who is the strongest, the best, etc.
- The party leaders are slogging it out in a TV debate.