The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slugging match \Slug"ging match\
A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang]
A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. [Slang, U. S.]
Usage examples of "slugging match".
Worse, the capital ships from Cimmaron, though few in number, were starting to make a difference in the energy-weapon slugging match which now raged with the fortresses.
This is just going to be a slugging match, at least in the beginning.
For a while, shed thought the charm would hold through the slugging match in this system.
For a while, she'd thought the charm would hold through the slugging match in this system.
The details would mean more to Daniel than they did to her, but it would be obvious to a child that a straight-up slugging match between a cruiser and a corvette with only half her normal twenty missiles could end only one way.
The first breathless excitement died away, and it was realised that the event was the beginning of a long slugging match.
Getting into a stand up toe to toe slugging match with the Devil Dogs by ourselves isn't on.
The two Dalgiri shuttles had just fought a slugging match near Mare Moscoviense, and the last through the portal had come up the loser.
That made it a straightforward slugging match, army against army: the same sort of fight Arpulo had waged.
The Russians have space to play with, but if it comes down to a slugging match, bet your money on the People's Liberation Army.
Pitt was tiring, his arm felt leaden, like a prizefighter's after the fourteenth round of a toe-to-toe slugging match.
Not even arrogant and cocksure Grayhills were foolish enough to think they could stand against Vanbert regulars in a toe-to-toe slugging match in a box.
Valentinian, on the other hand, had taken to the ground as soon as the battle had become a deadlocked slugging match.