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stockdollager

stockdollager is the obsolete form 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.

Forms of stockdollager

pluralstockdollagers

Questions about stockdollager

What is stockdollager the obsolete form of?
Stockdollager is the obsolete form of sockdolager.

Words near stockdollager in the dictionary

  1. stockcars
  2. Stockcross
  3. Stockdale
  4. Stockdales
  5. Stockdalewath
  6. stockdollager
  7. stockdollagers
  8. stockdove
  9. stockdoves
  10. stocked
  11. stocked down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stockdollager (page history and authors); sockdolager (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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