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Noun: sockdolager
Usage: US, informal
  1. An exceptionally large, heavy, or decisive blow
    "He delivered a sockdolager that ended the fight"
     
  2. Something exceptional or outstanding
    "That argument was a real sockdolager"
     
  3. A decisive answer or settlement
    "Her rebuttal was a sockdolager that silenced all critics"

Derived forms: sockdolagers

Encyclopedia: Sockdolager