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[ˌsɑkˈdɑːɫ.ə.d͡ʒɚ] · noun
(US, slang, dated) 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.”
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.)
Use sockdolager when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sockdolager means (US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger.
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