flog
UK/flɒɡ//flɑɡ/
flog verb: to whip or scourge as punishment.
Verb
flog (third-person singular simple present flogs, present participle flogging, simple past and past participle flogged)
- To whip or scourge as punishment.
- To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging the car then stopping, then driving slow then flogging it again.2002 October 30, Chris Wardrop, “VL idles rough when warm...”, in aus.cars (Usenet)
- To sell.
- And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month.2001 January 26, Paul Edwards, “Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days”, in aus.comms.mobile (Usenet)
- Flanders was able to flog his piece of land, for which he had originally paid £4,000, to one of the largest gold-mining corporations for something like a couple of million smackers.2007, Dave Lee (jazz musician), Nothing Rhymes with Silver 2, page 78
- To steal something.
- Synonyms:
- loot, purloin, steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone
- To defeat easily or convincingly.
- The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond.1999 August 16, Mr Ripper, “Nothing to Crow About”, in rec.sport.football.australian (Usenet)
- Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.2001 June 9, Cas., “Eng v Aus 1977”, in aus.sport.cricket (Usenet)
- Synonyms:
- beat, thrash, bring down, convince, chew up, eat someone for breakfast, eat someone's lunch, humble, kick ass, malavogue
- To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
- The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers2007 February 6, “Suppliers the losers in Coles-Woolworths war”, in The Age
- To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
Noun (1)
flog (plural flogs)
- A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
- It follows the ejection of a supporter who allegedly ran towards umpire Mathew Nicholls while calling him a "bald-headed flog" at half-time of the Carlton-Brisbane Lions match last Saturday.2019 June 15, Goya Dmytryshchak, “AFL fan outrage at 'behaviourial awareness officers'”, in The Age
Noun (2)
flog (plural flogs)
- A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
- Though a handful of viral videos and flogs have captured significant interest, the vast majority hardly register with consumers.2008, Lucas Conley, OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
- An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.2009, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation, page 33
flog meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
flog in Tamil
- பிரம்பு, சவுக்கு, கசை முதலியவற்றால் அடி, தீவிரமாக பொருட்களை விற்பனை செய், விளம்பரப்படுத்து, முன்னிறுத்து
flog in Urdu
- پٹائی کرنا
flog in Malayalam
- കഠിനയത്നം ചെയ്ത് തകരാറു പരിഹരിക്കുക, പ്രഹരിച്ച് ദുർഗുണങ്ങൾക്ക് ചികിത്സിക്കുക, പ്രഹരിക്കുക
flog in Kannada
- to flog
- ಸೆಳೆ seḷe
More languagesFewer languages
- flog in Odia
- ଉତାରିବା utāribā
- flog in Sinhala
- තළනවා taḷanawā
- flog in Arabic
- جَلَدَ jalada
Examples of flog in a sentence
- Getting flogged by a team that got flogged by a team that got flogged by the Bulldogs.2004 June 5, Greg Vincent }:c{, “POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):
- […] hidden advertising and flogs (the use of “personal blogs” for unfair commercial and political purposes), […]2010, Beata Klimkiewicz, Media Freedom and Pluralism:
Synonyms of flog
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Forms of flog
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | flogs |
| present participle | flogging |
| past participle | flogged |
| past | flogged |
| Noun | |
| plural | flogs |
Origin of flog
From Middle English *floggen (suggested by flogge (“hammer, sledge”), from Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukkōną (“to beat”), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *flōkaną. The original zero-grade iterative *flakkōną had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack (“to beat”), also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap". Cognate with Scots flog (“a blow, stripe, flogging”, noun), Scots flog (“thin strip of wood”), Norwegian flak (“a piece torn off, strip”). Alternatively, a back-formation from flogger, from Low German flogger (“a flail”).
Blend of fake + blog.
Words formed from flog
Words that rhyme with flog
Questions about flog
- What does flog mean?
- Flog means to whip or scourge as punishment.
- What is flog in Tamil?
- Flog in Tamil is பிரம்பு, சவுக்கு, கசை முதலியவற்றால் அடி. See Flog meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use flog in a sentence?
- Getting flogged by a team that got flogged by a team that got flogged by the Bulldogs.
- What part of speech is flog?
- Flog can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce flog?
- Flog is pronounced /flɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of flog?
- The past tense of flog is flogged.
Words near flog in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flog (page history and authors); flog (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flog (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flog (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಸೆಳೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ଉତାରିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); තළනවා (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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