noun

• 1A forceful blow.

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  • ‘His talent was delivering sockdolagers with his rifle butt.’
  • ‘Get busy, fellows, and let them have something in return for these two sockdolagers.’

• 2An exceptional person or thing.

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  • ‘Here was another sockdolager; for, when I began to think about it, I could not remember a thing in the Constitution that authorized it.’
  • ‘Nothing would suit me better than to pull in some of the sockdolagers you'll find in that lake.’
  • ‘A knock on the head with a stick stilled him, and I had one of the genuine "sockdolagers" of the Indian Lake as my captive.’