Sunday punch

noun

1

: a powerful or devastating blow

especially : a knockout punch

2

: something capable of delivering a powerful or devastating blow to the opposition

saving his Sunday punch for the end of the campaign

—Newsweek

Word History

First Known Use

1915, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Sunday punch

• brunch
• bunch
• chinch
• crunch
• hunch
• lunch
• keypunch