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coldcocking

vb. (present participle of coldcock English)

Usage examples of "coldcocking".

Sven, who had a sore jaw and a score to settle with Lize for coldcocking him with the butt of the revolver.

I looked up at the sky, which was clouding over again for a rain, and I saw a streak or two of lightning, and I thought, well, maybe a bolt would strike me, coldcocking me for the night, so that Rose would excuse me.