slog
UK/slɒɡ/US/slɑɡ/
slog noun: a long, tedious walk or march.
Noun
slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)
- A long, tedious walk or march.
- A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
- It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times
- England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport
- A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
- An aggressive shot played with little skill.
Verb
slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)
- To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
- The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419
- A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
- Synonyms:
- ambulate, navigate, pedestrianize, raik
- To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
- It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.
slog meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
slog in Tamil
- கடுமையாக உழை, மெனக்கெடு, மெதுவாக, சிரமப்பட்டு நகர், நட, பலமான அடி
slog in Malayalam
- toil, work hard, labour
- കഷ്ടപ്പെടുക, ആയാസപ്പെടുക, അത്യദ്ധ്വാനം ചെയ്യുക, അക്ഷീണം പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, വാശിയോടെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, കെെയും മെയ്യും മറന്നദ്ധ്വാനിക്കുക
- tramp, trudge, traipse
- ആയാസപ്പെട്ടു നടക്കുക, ദീർഘദൂരം കാൽനടയായി സഞ്ചരിക്കുക, ഊറ്റമായി നടക്കുക, മന്ദോത്സാഹനായി നടക്കുക, നിരുത്സാഹനായി വലിഞ്ഞിഴഞ്ഞു നടക്കുക, നടന്നു യാത്ര ചെയ്യുക
- toil, hard work, toiling
- കഠിനാദ്ധ്വാനം, അത്യദ്ധ്വാനം, കഠിനപരിശ്രമം, അക്ഷീണപരിശ്രമം, ദണ്ഡിപ്പ്, അദ്ധ്വാനം
- trudge, tramp, traipse
- അലഞ്ഞു നടപ്പ്, നടപ്പ്, തെണ്ടിനടപ്പ്, നടന്നുപോകൽ, കാൽനട, പാദചാരം
slog in Kannada
- ಪಟ್ಟುಹಿಡಿದು ಮಾಡು, ದುಡಿ, ಪಟ್ಟುಹಿಡಿದು ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡು, ಕಷ್ಟಪಟ್ಟು ದುಡಿ, ಅವಿಶ್ರಾಂತ ದುಡಿಮೆ, ಕಷ್ಟಪಟ್ಟು ದುಡಿಯುವುದು
Examples of slog in a sentence
- There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:
- Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal” books to “avoid ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it.”2025 June 25, Lee Chong Ming, quoting William Alsup and Dario Amodei, “Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and...
Synonyms of slog
Forms of slog
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | slogs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | slogs |
| present participle | slogging |
| past participle | slogged |
| past | slogged |
Origin of slog
Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough. Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
Words formed from slog
Words that rhyme with slog
Questions about slog
- What does slog mean?
- Slog means a long, tedious walk or march.
- What is slog in Tamil?
- Slog in Tamil is கடுமையாக உழை, மெனக்கெடு, மெதுவாக. See Slog meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use slog in a sentence?
- There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.
- What part of speech is slog?
- Slog can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce slog?
- Slog is pronounced /slɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of slog?
- The plural of slog is slogs.
Words near slog in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slog (page history and authors); slog (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slog (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); slog (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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