Usually means: Final blow; decisively impressive action.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sockdolager: Merriam-Webster
  2. sockdolager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sockdolager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sockdolager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sockdolager: Wordnik
  6. sockdolager: Wiktionary
  7. sockdolager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sockdolager: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. sockdolager: Dictionary.com
  10. sockdolager: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Sockdolager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sockdolager: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Sockdolager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sockdolager: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Sockdolager: The Word Detective
  16. sockdolager: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Sockdolager: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sockdolager: Legal dictionary

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  1. sockdolager: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sockdolager: A Word A Day
  2. sockdolager: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sockdolager: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sockdolager: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sockdolager)

noun:  (US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.
noun:  (US, slang, dated) Something large or otherwise exceptional; a whopper.
noun:  (US, fishing) 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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