slogn.
/slɒɡ/, U.S. /slɑɡ/ colloquial.
1. Hard, steady work; a spell of this.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > steady, continuous, or dull
shoulder-work1715
grubbing1831
grind1851
slog1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 127 Slog, when a person is working hurriedly he is said to have a ‘slog on’.
1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 172 That one way amounts to sheer mechanism and slog.
2. A vigorous blow; a hard hit at cricket.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow
rackc1300
pelta1540
sparring-blowa1690
racket1710
whack1737
skite1825
slogger1829
slug1830
swinger1836
slog1846
crump1850
bitch slap1987
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke
long ball1744
nip1752
catch1816
no-hit1827
cut1833
short hit1833
draw1836
drive1836
square hit1837
skylarker1839
skyer1840
skyscraper1842
back-cut1845
bum1845
leg sweep1846
slog1846
square cut1850
driver1851
Harrow drive1851
leg slip1852
poke1853
snick1857
snorter1859
leg stroke1860
smite1861
on-drive1862
bump ball1864
rocketer1864
pull1865
grass trimmer1867
late cut1867
off-drive1867
spoon1871
push1873
push stroke1873
smack1875
Harrow drive1877
pull-stroke1880
leg glance1883
gallery-hit1884
boundary-stroke1887
glide1888
sweep1888
boundary1896
hook1896
leg glide1896
backstroke1897
flick1897
hook stroke1897
cover-drive1898
straight drive1898
square drive1900
edger1905
pull-drive1905
slash1906
placing stroke1907
push drive1912
block shot1915
if-shot1920
placing shot1921
cow-shot1922
mow1925
Chinese cut1937
haymaker1954
hoick1954
perhapser1954
air shot1956
steepler1959
mishook1961
swish1963
chop-
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 76 And she felt inclined to mug her rival, only she thought it would be no bottle, cos her rival could go in a buster at a slog.
1865 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. 139 Too fond of losing his wicket for a ‘slog’.
1895 Daily News 5 Feb. 3/5 Ford sent a ball straight into point's hands. Peel tried a blind slog.
1897 H. W. Bleakley Short Innings vi. 94 Sixey made a mighty slog, but failed to strike the ball.
Draft additions December 2006
slog-sweep n. Cricket a sweep shot in which the ball is hit powerfully in the air, usually towards mid-wicket.
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1996 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 16 Dec. Atherton's frustrating innings eventually ended tamely as he wound up for what was intended to be the one-day slog sweep, only to see the ball spiral off the bottom of the bat to mid-on.
2005 D. Mortimer Ultimate Test 262 Gibbs had got himself out with an extravagant attempt at a slog-sweep just before the arrival of the new ball.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slogv.
/slɒɡ/, U.S. /slɑɡ/ colloquial.
1.
a. transitive. To hit or strike hard; to drive with blows. Also figurative, to assail violently.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously
dingc1300
knock1377
thwack1533
stoter1690
sock1699
whack1721
slog1824
whither1825
drub1849
thack1861
slug1862
dang1866
whomp1973
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by impact or force > by striking or beating
smitec1330
swapa1375
inbeatc1420
possa1425
rushc1440
strike1450
ram1519
pash1530
thwack1566
whip1567
thump1596
lash1597
knocka1616
switcha1625
to knock down1653
to knock in1669
stave1837
whip1868
slog1884
to beat down-
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
1824 Session Papers Central Criminal Court 21 Sept. 535/1 One of them said, ‘Go back and slog him.’
1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green xi. 106 His whole person [had been] put in chancery, stung, bruised, fibbed,..slogged, and otherwise ill-treated.
1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Mem. iv. 32 We slogged the tired cattle round the fence.
1891 Spectator 10 Oct. 487/1 They love snubbing their friends and ‘slogging’ their enemies.
b. Cricket. To obtain (runs) by hard hitting.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > score runs
fetch1735
run1752
to knock up1837
to knock off1851
to run out1856
to hit off1857
rattle1860
compile1884
to hit up1895
slog1897
1897 H. W. Bleakley Short Innings iii. 49 Mr. Dolly slogged sixes and fours until he had made about eighty.
2. intransitive. To walk heavily or doggedly.Halliwell's ‘Slog, to lag behind’ probably belongs to slug v.1
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > laboriously or aimlessly
haik?a1500
harl?a1513
trudge1547
palt1560
ploda1566
traipse1593
trash1607
truck1631
tramp1643
vamp1654
trudgea1657
daggle1681
trape1706
trampoose1794
hike1809
slog1872
taigle1886
pudge1891
sludge1908
schlep1937
schlump1957
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 119 Then abiit..off slogs boy.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Slog, to walk with burdened feet, as through snow, or puddle.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 2/1 Overtaking the guns, we ‘slogged’ on with them for a mile or more.
3.
a. To deal heavy blows, to work hard (at something), to labour away, etc.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist in [verb (transitive)]
to stand in ——a1382
maintainc1385
willc1400
to stand fortha1425
to stick to ——1525
to tug out1631
worry1727
to stick out1833
to stick at ——1845
slog1846
stay1956
to chase up1958
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight vigorously
to stand to it1544
slog1846
to mix it up1898
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil
sweatc897
swingc1000
swinkOE
travailc1275
carka1350
tavec1350
to-swinkc1386
labourc1390
byswenke?a1400
tevelc1400
toilc1400
pingle1511
carp1522
moilc1529
turmoil1548
mucker1566
tug1619
tuggle1650
fatigue1695
hammer1755
fag1772
bullock1888
slog1888
to sweat one's guts out1890
schlep1937
slug1943
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 37 Most of them can slog, that is to say,..fight.
1888 Daily News 22 May 5/2 I slogged at it, day in and day out.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) They slogged away at the anchor shank.
1903 19th Cent. Mar. 392 They have no incentives to slog and slave.
b. Cricket. To hit, or attempt to hit, the ball hard and with abandon.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting
to play back1816
to step in1837
to play forward1851
to run out1858
slog1869
hang one's bat out to dry1895
to force the game1897
to farm the strike1901
to sit on (or upon) the splice1906
1869 Baily's Monthly Mag. July 21 Not only did he ‘slog’, in the true sense of the word, which we take to be hitting blindly and high in the air, but [etc.].
1904 F. C. Holland Cricket 36 You should go to the nets, not to slog, but to play.
1935 J. C. Masterman Fate cannot harm Me viii. 167 At the fifth ball the Admiral slogged with even crookeder bat and even more mighty effort; he missed it, and all three stumps were spreadeagled.
1980 Cricketer International Feb. 11/1 The incredible thing is that he never had to slog once to make his runs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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