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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slugger
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 the prospects.
▪ The Big Hurt already looks the part of a legendary slugger.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slugger

Slugger \Slug"ger\, n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slugger

1877, originally in baseball, agent noun from slug (v.). Meaning "one who hits with the fists" is from 1883.

Wiktionary
slugger

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

WordNet
slugger
  1. n. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, batsman]

  2. a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches [syn: slogger]

Wikipedia
Slugger

A slugger most often means a baseball player with a high slugging percentage.

Slugger or Sluggers may also refer to:

  • Berlin Sluggers, a German baseball team founded in 1985
  • Abbeville Sluggers, an American minor league baseball team in 1920
  • Slugger Labbe (born 1968), American NASCAR crew chief
  • The Louisville Sluggers, also known as The Sluggers, a former Australian Swing Revival band formed in the late 1990s

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.