slog

(slŏg)

v. slogged, slog·ging, slogs

v.intr.

1. To walk or progress with a slow heavy pace; plod: slog across the swamp; slogged through both volumes.

2. To work diligently for long hours: slogged away at Latin.

v.tr.

1. To make (one's way) with a slow heavy pace against resistance.

2. To strike with heavy blows.

1. A long exhausting march or hike: a slog through miles of jungle.

2. A long session of hard work: an 18-hour slog in the hay fields.

[Perhaps alteration of slug.]

slog′ger n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	slogger - someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner plodder, trudger pedestrian, footer, walker - a person who travels by foot
	2.	slogger - someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours plodder drudge, hack, hacker - one who works hard at boring tasks
	3.	slogger - a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches slugger boxer, pugilist - someone who fights with his fists for sport

Translations

bosseur

sgobbone

slogger

[ˈslɒgəʳ] N → trabajador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

slogger

n (Brit inf) → Arbeitstier nt (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

slogger

[ˈslɒgəʳ] n (hard worker) → sgobbone/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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He was called Slogger Williams, from the force with which it was supposed he could hit.

The Slogger found his legs very slowly, and proceeded to go below Tom and two other boys with great disgust; and then, turning round and facing the master, said, "I haven't learnt any more, sir; our lesson is only forty lines."

"Who'll stop me?" said the Slogger, raising his hand again.

"I," said Tom; and suiting the action to the word he struck the arm which held Arthur's arm so sharply that the Slogger dropped it with a start, and turned the full current of his wrath on Tom.

There's going to be a fight between Slogger Williams and Tom Brown!"

"Now, old boy, don't you open your mouth to say a word, or try to help yourself a bit--we'll do all that; you keep all your breath and strength for the Slogger." Martin meanwhile folded the clothes, and put them under the chapel rails; and now Tom, with East to handle him, and Martin to give him a knee, steps out on the turf, and is ready for all that may come; and here is the Slogger too, all stripped, and thirsting for the fray.

Besides, you can see by the clear white of his eye, and fresh, bright look of his skin, that he is in tip-top training, able to do all he knows; while the Slogger looks rather sodden, as if he didn't take much exercise and ate too much tuck.

A very severe round follows, in which Tom gets out and out the worst of it, and is at last hit clean off his legs, and deposited on the grass by a right-hander from the Slogger.

Loud shouts rise from the boys of Slogger's house, and the School-house are silent and vicious, ready to pick quarrels anywhere.

Tom felt the wisdom of the counsel, and saw already that he couldn't go in and finish the Slogger off at mere hammer and tongs, so changed his tactics completely in the third round.

The Slogger pulls up at last for a moment, fairly blown.

Tom goes in in a twinkling, and hits two heavy body blows, and gets away again before the Slogger can catch his wind, which when he does he rushes with blind fury at Tom, and being skilfully parried and avoided, overreaches himself and falls on his face, amidst terrific cheers from the School-house boys.

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