(transitive, usually in the passive) To halt the progress of.
North of the Alps, you can have heat and sun--but some summers (if you go far enough north) you can also be bogged in by rain and enough chill that you have to go out and buy wool hats.
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(Australia, intransitive, slang) To start eating with gusto.
He closed the door and motioned them to a tray. `Bog in, it's all on the house.'
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(Australia, intransitive, slang) To tackle a task vigorously.
The soldiers swept into the trench with a cheer! Some of the Turks remained to argue the point with the Australians, but the bulk of them ran squealing, for fear of being stuck, like pigs, to the second trench. Those Turks who stopped to…
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