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A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches
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slogger
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context cricket English) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit. 2 (cx colloquial English) One who hits hard; a slugger.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slogger \Slog"ger\ (sl[o^]g"g[~e]r), n. A hard hitter; a slugger. [Cant or Slang] --T. Hughes.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner [syn: trudger , plodder ] someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours [syn: plodder ] a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches [syn: slugger ]
Usage examples of slogger.
This was a cocktails-and-caviar boat, not a coastal slogger ready for gales such as I was used to.
The slogger smote a vigorous ball from the factory end, a little too high for a safe boundary, but an almost certain three.
I was an ex-foot slogger Both the Camilli had served as army officers.
Behind the three Flavians, the full mass of the army now came marching in: line after line of standard-bearers, trumpeters, baton-wielding officers in tall crimson crests, augurs, engineers, then the endless ranks of foot sloggers six deep, swinging along in the easy tramp that had taken the legions effortlessly throughout the world.
My eyes, I know, shone divinely as I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy of the Inniskillings win the final chukkar on his darling cob Centaur.
We've been doing it, with changes in weapons but very little change in our trade, at least since the time five thousand years ago when the foot sloggers of Sargon the Great forced the Sumerians to cry "Uncle!
We’ve been doing it, with changes in weapons but very little change in our trade, at least since the time five thousand years ago when the foot sloggers of Sargon the Great forced the Sumerians to cry “Uncle!