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flog

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verb/flɒɡ//flɑɡ/
  1. 1

    To whip or scourge as punishment.transitive

  2. 2

    To use something to extreme; to abuse.transitive

    • I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging the car then stopping, then driving slow then flogging it again.
  3. 3

    To sell.UKslangtransitive

    • And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month.
    • Flanders was able to flog his piece of land, for which he had originally paid £4,000, to one of the largest gold-mining corporations for something like a couple of million smackers.
  4. 4

    To steal something.AustraliaNew-Zealandtransitive

  5. 5

    To defeat easily or convincingly.AustraliaNew-Zealandtransitive

    • The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond.
    • Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.
  6. 6

    To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.Australiatransitive

    • The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers
  7. 7

    To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.

noun/flɒɡ//flɑɡ/
  1. 1

    A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.Australiaderogatoryinformal

    • It follows the ejection of a supporter who allegedly ran towards umpire Mathew Nicholls while calling him a "bald-headed flog" at half-time of the Carlton-Brisbane Lions match last Saturday.
noun/flɒɡ//flɑɡ/
  1. 1

    A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.Internet

    • Though a handful of viral videos and flogs have captured significant interest, the vast majority hardly register with consumers.
    • An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.

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