flog

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To whip or scourge as punishment.

2. 2

   To use something to extreme

   To use something to extreme; to abuse.

   • 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.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To steal something.

   2. 5

      To defeat easily or convincingly.

      • 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.
      • It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged by a team that got flogged by a team that got flogged by the Bulldogs.
   3. 6

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

      • The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers
   4. 7

      To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.

   5. 8

      A contemptible, often arrogant person

      A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.

      • 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.
   6. 9

      A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial…

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

      • 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.
      • […] hidden advertising and flogs (the use of “personal blogs” for unfair commercial and political purposes), […]

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