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SOCKDOLAGER

[sok-DOL-uh-jer]

DEFINITION:

-noun 

1. A decisive reply, argument. 
2. Something unusually large, heavy, etc.
3. A heavy, finishing blow.

EXAMPLES: 

1. WHACK! - bum! bum! bumble-umble-um-bum-bum-bum-bum - and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit - and then RIP comes another flash and another sockdolager.  - Mark Twain, The Adventures if Huckleberry Finn
2. "Your first day awake with us was some sockdolager," Andy said. "You handled them sharps slick as grease."  - Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back

Source: Dictionary.com
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