Thesaurus results for SLUGGER

slugger

noun

Definition of slugger

as in boxer

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Recent Examples of slugger But the Marlins are still looking for a signature bat, a genuine slugger, that strikes fear in opposing pitchers. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 In August, the powerful slugger led the American League in multiple offensive categories. — Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026 The new owner quickly signed the best players in baseball — slugger Vladimir Guerrero and pitcher Bartolo Colón. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 This symbolic gesture is a desperate attempt to spark a turnaround for the slugger, whose power outage follows a recent $500 million extension. — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for slugger

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Noun

Anthony LaRoque was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black pants and red boxers, with a long black-and-white lanyard hanging from his pocket.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
That’s because the 550 J is powered by a 48-volt electric drivetrain instead of the four-cylinder boxer engine found in the racer from the 1950s.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of boxer

Noun

The 50-year-old Ukrainian pugilist was engaged to Panettiere in 2013 during an on-and-off relationship that lasted nearly a decade.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2026
The group reached the office of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minneapolis who has a reputation as a political pugilist.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of pugilist

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But Ford had stripped these two unpainted entries down to the chassis, like prizefighters shedding final pounds before weigh-in.

— Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
The explosive jazz‑rock pianist – known for redefining piano performance with the physicality of a prizefighter and the swagger of a rock guitarist – is set to turn the DIA’s auditorium into something closer to a sonic combustion chamber.

— Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 24 Feb. 2026

Definition of prizefighter

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Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.

— Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 July 2019
All this real guts and glory in Philadelphia, yet one of the big tourist attractions is to run up the Art Museum steps the way a palooka named Rocky Balboa did on the silver screen.

— Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 1 Jan. 2018

Definition of palooka

Noun

The movie follows Lucius’ return to Rome as a slave, forced to compete in gladiator fights as his father Maximus (Crowe’s character from the original movie) did before him.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
Rome — Rome’s ancient Colosseum, where gladiators were once gored by wild animals to the delight of cheering crowds, has never exactly been associated with safety.

— Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of gladiator

Noun

But Hearts of Darkness didn’t have anywhere as many macarons, pugs or frothy silk-satin gowns as Making Marie Antoinette does, so who knows which one future generations will watch more?

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
Struggling to come to terms with the diagnosis, Jenifer now stays mostly indoors, building elaborate Lego artwork and spending time with their rescue pug mixes.

— Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026