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A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches
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slugger
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Word definitions for slugger in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slugger \Slug"ger\, n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the Orioles slugger faces an important physical this morning. ▪ He is still considering whether to sign free agent slugger Darryl Strawberry. ▪ It might seem logical to build around Sosa, a veteran slugger to complement all ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a boxer who tends to deliver hard punches 2 (context baseball English) a batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits
Usage examples of slugger.
For example, baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro, who has served a spokesman for Viagra, said that somebody had to come forward to talk about the problem of erectile dysfunction.
The others - the Akrons, Schwartz, Burden, Ralph White and such unlikely sluggers as Mrs.
Little Gem, a comparatively small copper mine in Colorado, a mile and a half down and some six miles in, Top Miner Grant Purves half-lay-half-crouched behind a two-hundred-fifty-pound Sullivan Slugger air-drill operating under one hundred seventy five pounds per square inch of compressed air.
In a ballpark built for sluggers, he pitched fifty-one innings with an earned run average of 1.
They were snipers, not sluggers, and keeping them well back would also keep her wounded armor away from those godawful lasers.
Louisville Sluggers, fortunately while Wade was in the John, from which he scrambled out a rear door, then into the parking lot, then a further few thousand miles west.
Some bunch of sweat-stinking kids get a hydrant spouting and it drenches the storefront of a shylock who lives most of his time in Kipps Bay when he’s not sticking it to his Spanish Harlem customers, and he comes out of the pawnshop with a Louisville Slugger somebody hocked once, and he takes a swing at a mestizo urchin, and the next thi ng the precinc t k nows, they’ve got a three-star riot going on two full city blocks.