sockdolager
/sɒkˈdɒlədʒə
/noun US informal
1A forceful blow.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.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.
Origin
Mid 19th century: probably a fanciful formation from sock.
- pulsation theory
- pulsative
- pulsator
- pulsatory
- pulse
- pulse amplifier
- pulse amplitude modulation
- pulse code
- pulse code modulation
- pulse coding
- pulse column
- pulse compression
- pulse curve
- pulsed column
- pulsed Doppler
- pulse dialling
- pulse-Doppler
- pulse duration modulation
- pulse frequency modulation
- pulse glass
- pulse jet
- pulse-label
- pulseless
- pulselessness
- pulse-like