slogger

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɒɡə(ɹ)/

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From slog +‎ -er.

slogger (plural sloggers)

1. (cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
2. (colloquial) One who hits hard; a slugger.
   • 1857, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     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. He now fights cautious

• mud slogger

According to Hotten: from slow-goer.

slogger (plural sloggers)

1. (UK, Cambridge University slang) An inferior racing boat.

   Coordinate term: torpid

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• loggers, roggles