Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sockdolager"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sockdolager \Sock*dol"a*ger\, n.
Something unusually large. [Slang, U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sockdolager \Sock*dol"a*ger\, n. [A corruption of doxology.]
[Written also {sockdologer}.]
1. That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser,
as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.
[Slang, U.S.]
2. (Angling) A combination of two hooks which close upon each
other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.
[U. S.]
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