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Definition of Slugger
1. Noun. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting.
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Ballplayer, Baseball Player
Specialized synonyms: Bunter, Designated Hitter, Pinch Hitter, Switch-hitter, Whiffer
Derivative terms: Bat, Slug
2. Noun. A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches.
Definition of Slugger
1. n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
Definition of Slugger
1. Noun. a boxer who tends to deliver hard punches ¹
2. Noun. (baseball) a batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slugger
1. one that slugs [n -S] - See also: slugs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slugger
Literary usage of Slugger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Witwatersrand Goldfields, Banket & Mining Practice: With an Appendix on by Samuel John Truscott (1907)
"... The following are the drills which are chiefly used :— The slugger.—With this
machine the valve is moved by pressure, being actuated by differences of ..."
2. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"The soldier (who, by the way, fights where the typical slugger would show a clean
... In a word, the slugger ¡9 one of the most strongly-marked examples of ..."
3. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"Thanks to the Louisville slugger connection, the local baseball team is called
... The Bats play at Louisville slugger Field, right downtown on Main Street. ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1885)
"It is just possible that in some localities, where the rock is excessively hard
to drill, the "slugger" machine may give so hard a blow as to dull the steel ..."
5. Writing the Photoplay by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Arthur Leeds (1913)
"The slugger and his pals decide to have The Bat admit them to ... The Bat pleads
for his brother and the young millionaire tells The slugger to go, ..."
6. Writing the Photoplay by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Arthur Leeds (1913)
"The Bat pleads for his brother and the young millionaire tells The slugger to
go, but he announces he will take The Bat with him. ..."
7. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"These are broken by the blows of the slugger plates to ^-ton lumps, ... The blow
of the slugger is equivalent to that which would be given by a weight equal ..."
8. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"These are broken by the blows of the slugger plates to ^-ton lumps, ... The blow
of the slugger is equivalent to that which would be given by a weight equal ..."
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