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Meanings of slogger in English

Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.

        A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches.

              Usage of slogger in English
              1
              Two negroes, including the slogger, fell to him in his first over.
              The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
              2
              The slogger pulls up at last for a moment, fairly blown.
              Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
              3
              Once called a dirty slogger, the stats tell a different story.
              Radio NZ
              4
              Not bad at all for a man who five years earlier was a tail-end slogger called Pieterson.
              The Guardian
              5
              A slogger came in next, and made runs rather rapidly, but nothing much happened until the Fourth Officer's third over.
              The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
              6
              Gary Naylor: I obviously hope Pollard is OK, but what a joy to read of the bouncer sorting out the slogger.
              The Guardian
              7
              Loud shouts rise from the boys of slogger's house, and the school-house are silent and vicious, ready to pick quarrels anywhere.
              Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
              8
              A short rally at close quarters, and they close: in another moment the slogger is thrown again heavily for the third time.
              Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
              9
              But now that he had broken down just in the middle of all the long words, the slogger's wrath was fairly roused.
              Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
              10
              In fact, half the vice of the slogger's hitting is neutralized, for he daren't lunge out freely for fear of exposing his sides.
              Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
              11
              After another round the slogger too seems to see that he can't go in and win right off, and has met his match or thereabouts.
              Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
              12
              That's where Notre Pere will come into his own and it's not as if the giant eight-year-old can be dismissed as a mere slogger either.
              The Irish Times
              13
              For an instant Burke the Slogger saw the glaring of a red lamp.
              Condensed Novels
              14
              Constance must not arrive; Burke the Slogger must attend to that.
              The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales / With Condensed Novels...
              15
              The road at any time was covered with tired foot sloggers.
              Adventures of a Despatch Rider
              16
              The heavily committed eight-hour-a-day sloggers would need only half that.
              The Irish Times
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