/ slɒg; NAmE slɑːg/ verb , noun
■ verb ( -gg- ) ( informal )
1.
slog (through sth) | slog (away) (at sth) to work hard and steadily at sth, especially sth that takes a long time and is boring or difficult :
[ v ]
He's been slogging away at that piece of music for weeks.
[ vn ]
She slogged her way through four piles of ironing.
2.
[ v + adv. / prep. ] to walk or travel somewhere steadily, with great effort or difficulty :
He started to slog his way through the undergrowth.
I've been slogging around the streets of London all day.
3.
[ vn , v , usually + adv. / prep. ] to hit a ball very hard but often without skill
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IDIOMS
- slog it out
—more at gut noun
■ noun
[ U , C , usually sing. ] a period of hard work or effort :
Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.
It was a long slog to the top of the mountain.
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WORD ORIGIN
early 19th cent.: of unknown origin; compare with the verb slug .