1. A dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
   "The Appalachian clogging competition drew participants from across the region";
   - clog dance, clog dancing, clog

1. Preventing movement
   "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street";
   - hindering, impeding, obstructive

1. Become or cause to become obstructed
   "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall";
   - choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul
    
2. Fill to excess so that function is impaired
   "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details";
   - overload
    
3. Impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
   "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
    
4. Impede with a clog or as if with a clog
   "The market is being clogged by these operations";
   - constipate
    
5. Coalesce or unite in a mass
   "The wet cement started to clog in the mixer";
   - clot
    
6. (dancing) dance a clog dance
   "The performers clogged energetically to the lively music"

Derived forms: cloggings

See also: preventative, preventive

Type of: block, close up, coalesce, dance, fill, fill up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude, restrain, slow, slow down, slow up, tap dance, tap dancing, trip the light fantastic [archaic], trip the light fantastic toe [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Clogging