Usually means: Powerful, wild punch in boxing.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word haymaker:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. haymaker: Merriam-Webster
  2. haymaker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haymaker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haymaker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haymaker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haymaker, haymaker: Wordnik
  7. haymaker: Wiktionary
  8. haymaker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. haymaker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. haymaker: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Haymaker, haymaker: Dictionary.com
  12. Haymaker (album), Haymaker (band), Haymaker (punch), Haymaker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Haymaker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. haymaker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. haymaker: Rhymezone
  16. Haymaker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. haymaker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. haymaker: FreeDictionary.org
  19. haymaker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. haymaker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haymaker: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. haymaker, haymaker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Haymaker, haymaker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Haymaker: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Haymaker)

noun:  (agriculture) A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder.
noun:  (informal, fisticuffs) A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action.
noun:  A surname.

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