Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Australia, Canada, UK, countable, uncountable)A long, tedious walk or march.

  2. (Australia, Canada, UK, broadly, countable, uncountable)A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.

    Schufterei

  3. (countable)A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.

  4. (countable)An aggressive shot played with little skill.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. It's going to be a long slog.

    deDas wird ein hartes Stück Arbeit.

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  2. It’s kind of a slog at times.

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  3. We slogged all night to finish the project.

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  4. We can slog away all day at studying and still not learn anything.

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  5. It was a hard slog for Mary to raise her two children as a single parent.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
hard persistent effort, session of work:

Origin

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.

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Forms

plural: slogs
Singularslog
Pluralslogs

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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