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Definition of Sockdolager

Sockdolager
Sockdolager Sock*dol"a*ger, n. Something unusually large. [Slang, U. S.]
Sockdolager
Sockdolager Sock*dol"a*ger, n. [A corruption of doxology.] [Written also sockdologer.] 1. That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like. [Slang, U.S.] 2. (Angling) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites. [U. S.]

Meaning of Sockdolager from wikipedia

- were familiar and well-practiced among church choirs, the English word sockdolager arose, a deformation of doxology, which came to mean a "show-stopper"...
- Adventures of Jamel: The Time Traveling B-Boy John Wilkes Booth Episode: "Sockdolager" The Good Wife Tim Brewster Episode: "Driven" Deadbeat 2016 Hawk Smith...
- powerful hydraulics; terminus of the Hance Trail. Mile 79.1 – Sockdolager Rapid (7) – (Sockdolager is an archaic slang word for knockout blow.) Mile 82.1 –...
- May 1, 1920, was characterized by The New York Times reporter as a "sockdolager" (i.e. a decisive blow), and was described as traveling "over the right...
- Charity Anthology, CreateSpace "The Beachings" 2016 Short story The Sockdolager, Fall 2016 "The Slow Ones" 2017 Short story GlitterShip, Winter 2017...
- "The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us" Measures of Poison Scott Phillips "Sockdolager" Measures of Poison Daniel Stashower "The Adventure of the Agitated Actress"...
- Angel" "Raven Dance" "Bedrock Cathedral" "River Run" "Elves Chasm" "Sockdolager" "Air" "Grand Canyon Sunset" Paul Wintersoprano saxophone John Clark...
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- 2014). "Surfacing" – Lightspeed (March 2015). "The Dust Gate" – The Sockdolager (Fall 2016). "Drifting Like Leaves, Falling Like Acorns" – Analog Science...