Definition of Sunday punch
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
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The first known use of Sunday punch was in 1915
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