Meanings
verbslog away (third-person singular simple present slogs away, present participle slogging away, simple past and past participle slogged away)
present singular third person slogs away · participle present slogging away · participle past slogged away · past slogged away
- informalintransitiveto work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner
The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories. But such victories are given qualitative value when it is an artist who carries them off[…]
2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59
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“slog away.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slog%20away. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slog away,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slog%20away.
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