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sockdolagers

sockdolagers is the plural of sockdolager.

Meaning of sockdolager

Noun

sockdolager (plural sockdolagers)

  1. (US, dated, slang) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.
    • He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger.1831, James Kirke Paulding, Lion of the West
  2. (US, dated, slang) Something large or otherwise exceptional; a whopper.
    • Hey, Al, thought I'd call you from the locker room out here at Green Hills. Just made a sockdolager hole in one! A hole in one, Al! (etc.)1953, Ray Bradbury, The Murderer
  3. (US) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.

Questions about sockdolagers

What is sockdolagers the plural of?
Sockdolagers is the plural of sockdolager.

Words near sockdolagers in the dictionary

  1. sockasins
  2. Sockbridge
  3. Sockbridge and Tirril
  4. Sockburn
  5. sockdolager
  6. sockdolagers
  7. sockdolagizing
  8. sockdollager
  9. sockdollagers
  10. sockdologer
  11. sockdologers

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