▪ I. slog, n. colloq.
(slɒg)
[f. the vb.]
1. Hard, steady work; a spell of this.
| 1888 Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 127 When a person is working hurriedly he is said to have a ‘slog on’. 1903 M{supc}Neill Egregious English 172 That one way amounts to sheer mechanism and slog. |
2. A vigorous blow; a hard hit at cricket.
| 1846 Swell's Night Guide 76 And she felt inclined to mug her rival, only she thought it would be no bottle, cos her rival could go in a buster at a slog. 1865 Lilly-white's Cricketers' Compan. 139 Too fond of losing his wicket for a ‘slog’. 1895 Daily News 5 Feb. 3/5 Ford sent a ball straight into point's hands. Peel tried a blind slog. 1897 H. W. Bleakley Short Innings vi. 94 Sixey made a mighty slog, but failed to strike the ball. |
▸ slog-sweep n. Cricket a sweep shot in which the ball is hit powerfully in the air, usually towards mid-wicket.
| 1996 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 16 Dec. Atherton's frustrating innings eventually ended tamely as he wound up for what was intended to be the one-day slog sweep, only to see the ball spiral off the bottom of the bat to mid-on. 2005 D. Mortimer Ultimate Test 262 Gibbs had got himself out with an extravagant attempt at a slog-sweep just before the arrival of the new ball. |
▪ II. slog, v. colloq.
(slɒg)
[Of obscure origin. Cf. slug v.4]
1. a. trans. To hit or strike hard; to drive with blows. Also fig., to assail violently.
| 1824 Session Papers Central Criminal Court 21 Sept. 535/1 One of them said, ‘Go back and slog him.’ 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green xi. 106 His whole person [had been] put in chancery, stung, bruised, fibbed,..slogged, and otherwise ill-treated. 1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Melb. Memories iv. 32 We slogged the tired cattle round the fence. 1891 Spectator 10 Oct. 487/1 They love snubbing their friends and ‘slogging’ their enemies. |
b. Cricket. To obtain (runs) by hard hitting.
| 1897 H. W. Bleakley Short Innings iii. 49 Mr. Dolly slogged sixes and fours until he had made about eighty. |
2. intr. To walk heavily or doggedly.
Halliwell's ‘Slog, to lag behind’ probably belongs to slug v.
| 1872 Calverley Fly Leaves (1903) 119 Then abiit..off slogs boy. 1876 Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., Slog, to walk with burdened feet, as through snow, or puddle. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 2/1 Overtaking the guns, we ‘slogged’ on with them for a mile or more. |
3. a. To deal heavy blows, to work hard (at something), to labour away, etc.
| 1846 Swell's Night Guide 37 Most of them can slog, that is to say,..fight. 1888 Daily News 22 May 5/2, I slogged at it, day in and day out. 1894 Heslop Northumberland Gloss. s.v., They slogged away at the anchor shank. 1903 19th Cent. Mar. 392 They have no incentives to slog and slave. |
b. Cricket. To hit, or attempt to hit, the ball hard and with abandon.
| 1869 Baily's Mag. July 21 Not only did he ‘slog’, in the true sense of the word, which we take to be hitting blindly and high in the air, but [etc.]. 1904 F. C. Holland Cricket 36 You should go to the nets, not to slog, but to play. 1935 J. C. Masterman Fate cannot harm Me viii. 167 At the fifth ball the Admiral slogged with even crookeder bat and even more mighty effort; he missed it, and all three stumps were spreadeagled. 1980 Cricketer International Feb. 11/1 The incredible thing is that he never had to slog once to make his runs. |