sockdolager

noun

säk-ˈdä-li-jər How to pronounce sockdolager (audio)
variants or sockdologer
Definition of sockdolagernext
as in beauty
something very good of its kind the professor called it one sockdolager of a short story, but he seemed to be the only one in the room amused by this description

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sockdolager
  1. beauty
  2. dream
  3. corker
  4. humdinger
  5. phenomenon
  6. marvel
  7. lollapalooza
  8. ripsnorter
Noun
  • You would have been treated like gods and lived forever in beauty.
    — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The idea that beauty comes from within never entered the discussion.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of beauty
Noun
  • Sequenced at the center of a three-track medley, its death-dream logic deliberately evokes the SMiLE era’s dark, confusing edge.
    — Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In a bucket hat and without a care in the world, Murray speaks kindly but candidly about making his buddy Coyne’s TV dream come true.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of dream
Noun
  • Of course all the business between Patricia and the Boogeyman is just an excuse for Widow’s Bay to stage a corker of a send-up of 1978’s Halloween and slasher movies of its ilk.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • The breakfast buffet is supremely surreal A big part of every season of The White Lotus is the breakfast buffet, and the Martinez’s daily extravaganza is a corker.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of corker
Noun
  • With both teams in good form, fans can expect a humdinger at the Emirates today.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Presented in a woodland forest, today’s Chanel couture show was a real humdinger.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 7 July 2026
Definition of humdinger
Noun
  • The health emergency caused demand for fuel to crash to the point that the world ran out of room to store oil, a phenomenon that briefly drove crude oil futures below zero for the first time ever.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In 1980, to better understand this phenomenon, the mathematician and economist Graciela Chichilnisky turned to topology, an area of math in which shapes are considered equivalent if one can be stretched into another without tearing.
    — Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of phenomenon
Noun
  • This was performance at its peak, a marvel to behold of an artist who helped build hip-hop as an institution while adding to the story still being written.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The fact that Drew still gazed upon my more than half-a-century-old, decidedly not-hot physique with love and desire was a marvel and a gift.
    — Diana Daniele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of marvel
Noun
  • Mikhail might have shuffled off this mortal coil early, but his spirit lingers in a lollapalooza gallery that represents in flavor and type, though not in exact content, Impressionist salons in the 1870s into the early 1880s.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Worries about Trump’s button finger were seeping out of Washington even before the book lollapalooza.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 5 Jan. 2018
Definition of lollapalooza
Noun
  • Will relish manager Brendan Rodgers style of play, and could have another ripsnorter of a campaign.
    — SI.com, SI.com, 6 July 2019
Definition of ripsnorter
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