flog
IPA: fɫˈɑg
noun
- (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
- (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
verb
- (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
- (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
- (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
- (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
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Examples of "flog" in Sentences
- You wouldn't flog a racehorse.
- The flogged their chieftain to death.
- Google flogs Motorola set top box biz for $2.35bn.
- He tried to flog them on internet trading websites.
- He was caught drinking and the Prophet had him flogged.
- It was not usual to flog the face, especially in Palastine.
- The Floggings applied to only the Male of commoner and humbleness.
- Some of the apostles are arrested and flogged, but ultimately freed.
- Disobedience to his directives meant severe flogging of the culprit.
- Earlier, it was mainly the young women and the infertile who were flogged.
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