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Definition of Sockdolagers
1. sockdolager [n] - See also: sockdolager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sockdolagers
Literary usage of Sockdolagers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"He seemed to aim at my face, and every few minutes I received what the prize-ring
would call "plumpers in the peeper, and sockdolagers on the ..."
2. Short Story Classics (American) by William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Hallie Erminie Rives, Charles Heber Clark, William Patten, Maragaret Wade Campbell Deland (1905)
"... almost tempted to sue the firm for conspiracy with intent to defraud; but
decided that it was "another of Luck's sockdolagers" and let it go at that, ..."
3. Short Story Classics (American) by William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Hallie Erminie Rives, William Patten, Charles Heber Clark, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, P.F. Collier & Son (1905)
"... almost tempted to sue the firm for conspiracy with intent to defraud; but
decided that it was "another of Luck's sockdolagers" and let it go at that, ..."
4. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"... almost tempted to sue the firm for conspiracy with intent to defraud; but
decided that it was "another of Luck's sockdolagers" and let it go at that, ..."
5. Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, Tenth President of Columbia College in by John Fulton, Margaret McMurrray Barnard (1896)
"would foot the bill, I would put out for popular circulation, some sockdolagers
011 the economy of educating the people by a thorough and efficient system ..."
6. Overland Through Asia: Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox (1871)
"He seemed to aim at my face, and every few minutes I received what the prize ring
would call' plumpers in the peeper, and sockdolagers on the potato-trap. ..."
7. Hunting Adventures in the Northern Wilds: Or, A Tramp in the Chateaugay by Samuel H. Hammond (1859)
"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. In the course of an hour we ..."
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