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Definition: SOCKDOLAGER |
SOCKDOLAGERNoun1. A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites. 2. That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like. |
Date "SOCKDOLAGER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Note: Sockdolager \Sock*dol"a*ger\, noun. [A corruption of doxology.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Confutation | Noun: {ant } confutation, refutation; answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument; sockdolager. |
End | Break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sockdolager | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SOCKDOLAGER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hap vendimtar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | решаващ удар (settler), решаващ довод (settler), нещо огромно (whale), нещо изключително (rouser, smasher, snorter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kegyelemdöfés (coup de gráce, finisher, finishing stroke), elsöprő erejű ütés, döntő csapás, döntő érv (clinching argument). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockdolagersay pancada violenta (smasher, swipe, wallop), golpe (bat, biff, blast, blow, bop, coup, dint, drive, floorer, hit, jab, knock, mouthful, putsch, scotch, smasher, stroke, swat, tit), argumento decisivo (clincher, clinker). (various references) нечто огромное (walloper). (various references) presudan udarac. (various references) argumento decisivo. (various references) toppengrej (Daisy, gas, knockout, Lollapalooza, snorter), avgörande slag. (various references) вирішальний удар, махина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "SOCKDOLAGER": sockdolagers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-k-l-o-o-r-s" | |
-3 letters: coloreds, cordages, corkages, daglocks, decalogs, decolors, dockages, earlocks, grackles, lockages, oarlocks. | |
-4 letters: aerosol, cadgers, calkers, cargoes, caroled, claroes, cloaked, coalers, codgers, coleads, colored, cookers, coolers, cordage, corkage, corsage, cradles, creosol, croaked, crooked, dackers, daglock, darkles, decalog, decolor, dockage, dockers, dogears, earlock, escolar, galores, gaolers, goorals, grackle, lackers, loaders, lockage, lockers, lodgers, lookers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-k-l-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: sockdolagers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 43 4B 44 4F 4C 41 47 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -.-. -.- -.. --- .-.. .- --. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000100 01001111 01001100 01000001 01000111 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O C K D O L A G E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 0043 004B 0044 004F 004C 0041 0047 0045 0052 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5349374538494635413952 |
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