slugging out

Verb

slug out (third-person singular simple present slugs out, present participle slugging out, simple past and past participle slugged out)

1. (transitive) To engage in a match, fight, battle, argument or competition.
   • They slugged out two wins last month.
2. (intransitive, usually, fight, battle) To be fought or competed.
   • It was a victory slugged out by the French.
3. (slang) To hit a ball.
   • He slugged out a homerun in the second inning.
4. (transitive) To write down with a typewriter.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).
6. (transitive) To add a slug (A block of text at the beginning of a scene), write a scene with a slug or write many slugs in a script.

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