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sucker-punch

sucker-punch is the alternative form of sucker punch.

Meaning of sucker punch

Verb

sucker punch (third-person singular simple present sucker punches, present participle sucker punching, simple past and past participle sucker punched)

  1. (transitive) To deliver an unexpected blow.
    • We stared at each other for a moment. Then, without blinking, I sucker punched him as hard as I could. He fell but instantly came back at me, head down like a bull.1996, Larry Flynt, Kenneth Ross, An Unseemly Man, Los Angeles: Dove Books, →ISBN, page 57

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Forms of sucker-punch

third-person singular presentsucker-punches
present participlesucker-punching
past participlesucker-punched
pastsucker-punched

Questions about sucker-punch

What is sucker-punch the alternative form of?
Sucker-punch is the alternative form of sucker punch.

Words near sucker-punch in the dictionary

  1. Sucker State
  2. sucker tracks
  3. sucker trap
  4. sucker traps
  5. sucker's payoff
  6. sucker-punch
  7. sucker-punched
  8. sucker-punches
  9. Suckerberg
  10. suckerdom
  11. suckered

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