slog

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

slog, v. t. & i. [Cf. Slug, v. t.].

 To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

slog, v. i. 

•  to walk heavily; to plod; to walk through resisting terrain, as in mud.  [PJC]
•  To work steadily and ploddingly; to toil.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

slog, v. & n.
--v. (slogged, slogging)
1 intr. & tr. hit hard and usu. wildly esp. in boxing or at cricket.
2 intr. (often foll. by away, on) walk or work doggedly.
--n.
1 a hard random hit.
2 a hard steady work. b a spell of this.

Derivative

slogger n.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.: cf. SLUG(2)

THESAURUS

slog

amble, bang, barge, bash, bat, belt, biff, bonk, bowl along, bundle, catch, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, drag, drudge, fag, fetch, fetch a blow, flounce, foot, footslog, grind, grub, halt, hammer, hammer away, hippety-hop, hit, hit a clip, hitch, hobble, hop, jab, jog, jolt, jump, keep doggedly at, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, moil, muck, nail, pace, paddle, paste, peg, peg away, piaffe, piaffer, plod, plug, plug along, plug at, plug away, plunk, poke, pound away, prance, punch, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slam, slave, slink, slither, slog away, slop, slouch, slug, smack, smite, snap, soak, sock, stagger, stalk, stamp, stodge, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, strike at, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swat, swing, swipe, thump, thwack, tittup, toddle, toil, totter, traipse, trash, travail, trip, trudge, waddle, wade through, wallop, wamble, whack, wham, whop, wiggle, wobble, work away, yerk