noun · verb · 20 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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UK:/d͡ʒɒɡ/
US:/d͡ʒɑɡ/
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rhymes with -ɒɡ
CMU ARPABET:JH AA1 G
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A sudden push or nudge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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3
noun
Meaning 3
A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: return piece
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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5
noun
Meaning 5
Acronym of Jewish occupation government
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, offensive
Qualifier: conspiracy theories
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ZOG
Antonyms: none provided
6
verb
Meaning 6
To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
jog one's elbow
c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
verb
Meaning 7
To shake, stir or rouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
I tried desperately to jog my memory.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: refresh
Antonyms: none provided
8
verb
Meaning 8
To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33, Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
9
verb
Meaning 9
To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: exercise, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
10
verb
Meaning 10
To cause to move at an energetic trot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
to jog a horse
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
11
verb
Meaning 11
To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
12
noun
Meaning 12
a slight push or shake
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nudge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: push, pushing
13
noun
Meaning 13
a slow pace of running
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trot, lope
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: locomotion, travel
Narrower terms: dogtrot
14
noun
Meaning 14
a sharp change in direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
there was a jog in the road
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: angular shape, angularity
15
verb
Meaning 15
stimulate to remember
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
jog my memory
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: provoke, stimulate
16
verb
Meaning 16
give a slight push to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nudge, poke at, prod
17
verb
Meaning 17
run at a moderately swift pace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trot, clip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: run
18
verb
Meaning 18
run for exercise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
jog along the canal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: run
19
verb
Meaning 19
even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: square up, even up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: square
20
verb
Meaning 20
continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
This novel rambles on and jogs
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ramble on, ramble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: continue, go on, carry on, proceed
History
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
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