Usually means: Unexpected hit catching one off-guard.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucker punch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sucker-punch, sucker punch: Merriam-Webster
  3. sucker punch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sucker punch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sucker punch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sucker punch: Vocabulary.com
  7. sucker-punch: Wordnik
  8. sucker-punch, sucker punch: Wiktionary
  9. sucker-punch, sucker punch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sucker-punch: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sucker-punch, sucker punch: Dictionary.com
  12. Sucker Punch (Sigrid album), Sucker Punch (film), Sucker Punch (play), Sucker Punch (song), Sucker Punch (soundtrack), Sucker Punch, Sucker punch (disambiguation), Sucker punch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sucker punch: Rhymezone
  14. sucker punch: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sucker punch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sucker-punch, sucker punch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sucker punch: Sports Definitions

(Note: See sucker_punching as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sucker punch)

noun:  (also figurative) An unexpected punch or similar blow.
noun:  A disabling punch targeting a place which is not normally acceptable in a "fair fight", such as on the back of the head.
verb:  (transitive) To deliver an unexpected blow.

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