noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/slɒɡ/
General-American:/slɑɡ/
Australia:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -ɒɡ
CMU ARPABET:S L AA1 G
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A long, tedious walk or march.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ambulate, pedestrianize, raik
Antonyms: none provided
6
verb
Meaning 6
To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
verb
Meaning 7
To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
8
verb
Meaning 8
strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
He slugged me so hard that I passed out
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slug, swig
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hit
9
verb
Meaning 9
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
Synonyms: plug away, peg away, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: work
History
Etymology
Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough. Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Spanish:
tráfago
— Translations
Czech:
dřina
— hard persistent effort, session of work
Czech:
lopota
— hard persistent effort, session of work
Czech:
makačka
— hard persistent effort, session of work
German:
Schufterei
— hard persistent effort, session of work
Bulgarian:
влача се
(vlača se)
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Danish:
ase
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Danish:
okse
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Danish:
traske
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Finnish:
raahustaa
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Finnish:
löntystellä
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
German:
schleppen
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
German:
quälen
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
German:
schleppend bewegen
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Italian:
arrancare
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Italian:
camminare a fatica
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Polish:
taszczyć się
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Russian:
идти́ impf с трудом
(s)
— to walk slowly, encountering resistance
Bulgarian:
бъхтя се
(bǎhtja se)
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
Czech:
pachtit se
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
Czech:
dřít se
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
Czech:
mořit se
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
German:
schuften
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
German:
plagen
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
German:
abmühen
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
German:
abplagen
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
Russian:
вка́лывать
(vkályvatʹ)
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
Spanish:
pencar
— to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
Bulgarian:
удрям силно
(udrjam silno)
— to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
Finnish:
kumauttaa
— to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
Finnish:
iskeä
— to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
Finnish:
huitaista
— to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
German:
verprügeln
— to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
German:
prügeln
— to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
