He started to slog his way up the hill.slog1 verbslog2 noun
slogslog1 /slɒɡ $ slɑːɡ/ verb (past tense and past participle slogged, present participle slogging) [intransitive, transitive] informal 
VERB TABLE
slog
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | slog |
| he, she, it | slogs | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slogged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slogged |
| he, she, it | has slogged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slogged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slog |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slogged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am slogging |
| he, she, it | is slogging | |
| you, we, they | are slogging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was slogging |
| you, we, they | were slogging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slogging |
| he, she, it | has been slogging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slogging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slogging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slogging |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A soaking wet Connors pushed open the flap and slogged inside.
- A truck came down the line picking us up and slogged to a stop in front of his ship.
- And the defense team, slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.
- But then, so do the 49ers as they slog their way through three more utterly meaningless games.
- Occasionally he would step down the wicket and slog my straight medium pacer straight and high over my head.
- Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant, grim-faced and tight-lipped, to slog on alone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He started to slog his way up the hill.
He started to slog his way up the hill.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1to work hard at something without stopping, especially when the work is difficult, tiring, or boring: - Byron was my hero and they've been slogging it out ever since.
- The answer is that you would have to slog it out all the way from London to Baghdad.
Mother slogged all her life for us.slog away After a day slogging away at work, I need to relax.slog through You just have to sit down and slog through long lists of new vocabulary.2[always + adverb/preposition] to make a long hard journey somewhere, especially on foot: He’s been slogging round the streets delivering catalogues.slog your way through/round etc something He started to slog his way up the hill.3slog it out British English to fight, compete, or argue about something until one side wins: The teams will be slogging it out on Saturday.slog1 verbslog2 noun
slogslog2 noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The campaign promises to be a long, hard slog.
- But it was also going to be a boring slog.
- From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!
- It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!
- Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.
- The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
THESAURUS
noun [countable] a journey that you make on foot, especially for exercise or enjoyment: · I took the dog out for a long walk in the fresh air.· We went for some lovely walks.· Do you fancy going out for a walk?
noun [countable] a long walk in the mountains or countryside: · We went for a hike in the woods.· There are some good hikes nearby.
noun [singular] a slow, relaxed walk: · Let’s take a stroll in the park.· We went for a stroll along the river.
British English a short relaxed walk, especially to look around a place: · We had a wander round the town and then went to the beach.
noun [singular] used when talking about a long walk in the mountains, countryside etc which lasts for several days and which you do for pleasure. Also used about a long tiring walk somewhere, which you do not want to have to do: · They went on a three week trek in the Atlas Mountains.· We then had a long trek back to our hotel with all our luggage.
[singular] a long, tiring, and unpleasant walk, which continues for several hours: · It was a dreary slog over bleak and windswept hills.
noun [countable] an occasion when a group of people walk somewhere together, in order to protest about something: · Demonstrators are planning a march through the capital.· a peace march
Longman Language Activatorneeding a lot of energy or physical effort tiring and needing a lot of work, energy, or physical effort: · Let your mother sit down. She's had a hard day at work.· Their car broke down, and they were suddenly faced with a long hard walk back to the nearest town.
needing a lot of physical effort: · The doctors advised against any strenuous activity for six weeks.· Last season his trainers put him through a strenuous running program.
backbreaking work, especially work that involves carrying and lifting heavy things, is extremely hard and needs a lot of physical effort: · After four hours of backbreaking work, we had finally pulled the wall down.
British /grueling American something that is gruelling is extremely tiring because it continues for a long time and you have to use a lot of effort continuously: · The Le Mans 24-hour race is the most gruelling event in the motor-racing calendar.· Before they join the army, young recruits are put through a particularly grueling endurance course.
written work or a journey that is arduous is long and tiring and needs a lot of strength and effort: · In those days, long-distance travel was slow and arduous.· Today, Corbett will continue his arduous climb to the top of the park's highest peak.
extremely difficult in a way that damages or weakens something or makes someone feel very tired: · The transatlantic flight was a punishing task for the plane's old engines.· He set himself a punishing schedule of talks, lectures and conferences all over America.
spoken use this when something is extremely difficult and needs a lot of effort or skill: · Traveling five days a week is murder. I can't do it anymore.it is murder doing something: · It's murder trying to park in this town!
British informal if something is a slog, it takes a lot of time and effort and is often boring: · He didn't become famous overnight -- it's been a long hard slog.· The first half of the book was quite interesting but the last part was a bit of a slog.
unpleasant or boring work things that you have to do every day, especially as part of your job, which are boring and make you feel tired: grind of: · Work feels like such a grind lately.· The relentless grind of hard labour and ill-health had taken its toll on Booth. the daily grind: · The daily grind of meetings and tutorials went on.hard grind British: · The Prime Minister is pictured taking a break from the hard grind of political life.
British use this to say that work is difficult, boring, and tiring: · The journey across the valley to the farm is going to be a slog.hard/long slog: · It's a hard slog isn't it? I wish we'd got further yesterday.· Cutting all the wood before nightfall was a long, hard slog.
British /grunt work American informal work that is boring or takes a lot of time and effort, but that has to be done as part of a job or larger piece of work: · I was doing grunt work for the secretary in the department, twenty hours a week.· The real donkey work was actually done by those guys.
work that is hard and unpleasant because it is very boring, takes a long time to do, and often involves a lot of physical effort: · Technological advances have taken much of the drudgery out of the assembly line and car plant.· What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and drudgery.the drudgery of something: · The data management system has eliminated much of the drudgery of filing.· Calculators were introduced to relieve students of the drudgery of pencil-and-paper number-crunching.
formal difficult and boring work that takes a long time: · Here began their arduous toil to force a living from the land.· man's desire for freedom from physical toil
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY months of hard slog a long hard slog uphillCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[singular, uncountable] British English informal a piece of work that takes a lot of time and effort and is usually boring: months of hard slog a long hard slog uphill· The first aspect that presents itself is one of sheer hard slog!· The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.· It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!· From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!· The season had been a hard slog and he felt a break was in the player's interests.· Then came Edinburgh and the long hard slog of a medical degree and the various hospital training jobs that followed.· Just hard slog to move up the world rankings.
It’ll be a slog, but I know we can do it. months of hard slog2[singular] a long period of tiring walking: a long hard slog uphill