slogverb
uk/slɒɡ/us/slɑːɡ/-gg-slog verb (WORK HARD)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] informal to work hard over a long period, especially doing work that is difficult or boring:
[ I + adv/prep ] to travel or move with difficulty, for example through wet, sticky soil or snow, or when you are very tired:
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Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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slog verb (HIT HARD)
[ T ] UK to hit a ball hard and often in an uncontrolled way
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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slognoun
uk/slɒɡ/us/slɑːɡ/slog noun (HARD WORK)
[ S ] informal a period of difficult or tiring effort:
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Effort and expending energy
- apply
- assiduous
- be running on empty idiom
- bust a gut idiom
- concentrated
- conscientious
- fight
- jump
- mightily
- mind
- overcompensate
- pains
- painstaking
- painstakingly
- shot
- slugger
- strenuous
- thirsty work
- trial and error
- work up sth
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slog noun (HARD HIT)
[ C ] UK informal a very hard, and often uncontrolled hit:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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