noun
- something outstanding or exceptional; a decisive blow or conclusive argument
Usage: informal; archaic
Examples
- His final argument was a real sockdolager that won the debate.
- The boxer delivered a sockdolager that ended the fight immediately.
- Her presentation included several sockdolagers that impressed the committee.
- The evidence he presented was a sockdolager against the defendant’s case.
- That joke was a sockdolager that had everyone laughing for minutes.