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A "sockdolager" is something that settles a matter, as with a decisive blow; it also means something that is extraordinary.— The State Journal-Register Home RSS
Because we've had a sockdolager of a winter - long, windy, often bitterly cold, perhaps unprecedentedly snowy - most of us are feeling a little cabin feverish.
"After that 'put asunder' sockdolager?— Cy Whittaker's Place
"A regular sockdolager, isn't it, Gates?" said Walter.— Walter Sherwood's Probation
"Well, that was a sockdolager, 'cause twa'n't the first time.— The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights

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