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In some senses, sockdolager is marked as dated, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.
He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger.
There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.
Something large or otherwise exceptional; a whopper.
Hey, Al, thought I'd call you from the locker room out here at Green Hills. Just made a sockdolager hole in one! A hole in one, Al! (etc.)
A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.