slugger
/ˈslʌɡə
/noun
1A person who throws hard punches: with one smashing left hook, the slugger punched his way to a world light-heavyweight title...
- He is a big puncher, but he was never a slugger—until his later days.
- He was a slugger like Marciano and took too many punches.
- From this point, he lost the power to punish his opponent and switched from slugger to boxer.
1.1 Baseball A player who consistently hits for power, especially home runs and doubles: his best pitch is his curve, which many sluggers swing at too early...
- We're going to tell you how you can own a piece of the baseball slugger's legacy.
- Members of Congress are calling on some of baseball's biggest sluggers over the use of steroids.
- On the day of the funeral, she was reportedly going to remarry legendary Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio.
