slog

Synonyms for slog

verb plod

1824, "hit hard," probably a variant of slug (v.3) "to strike." Sense of "walk doggedly" first recorded 1872. Related: Slogged; slogger; slogging.

It has become a question of who can slog longest and hardest.

He could manage the break, but this full pitch made him slog wildly.

Masters and men used to stand up foot to foot like Smithfield Butchers and slog till neither of them could stand.

These fellows were all in splendid condition, and it was a treat to slog along and watch them.

Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.

Then turn to again with a will, slog away till dusk, and so home to the old barn.

"I'll keep 'em on board and make 'em work their passage," he said to his mate, a mean chap by the name of Slog.