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sockdolager

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19
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22
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11
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[ˌsɑkˈdɑːɫ.ə.d͡ʒɚ]

Definition of sockdolager

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    “There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.”
    “"I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"”
    “The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer.”
    ““If punching parrots on the beak wasn't too painful for pleasure, I'd land you a sockdolager on the muzzle that ud lay you out till Christmas.””
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noun

  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.”
    “There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.”
    “"I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"”
    “The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer.”
    ““If punching parrots on the beak wasn't too painful for pleasure, I'd land you a sockdolager on the muzzle that ud lay you out till Christmas.””
  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.)”
  3. (US)A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.

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Etymology

Unknown, 1827 US, presumably fanciful variant of sock (“to hit”); compare contemporary fanciful American coinages. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested, such as corruption of doxology, due to this occurring at the end of church worship, hence “finality”.

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