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variants:
or sockdologer
Synonyms & Antonyms of sockdolager
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
Synonyms for sockdolager
- beaut,
- beauty,
- bee's knees,
- cat's meow,
- corker,
- crackerjack
- (also crackajack),
- daisy,
- dandy,
- dilly,
- doozy
- (or doozie also doozer),
- dream,
- honey,
- hot stuff,
- humdinger,
- hummer,
- jim-dandy,
- knockout,
- lollapalooza,
- lulu
- [slang],
- nifty,
- peach,
- pip,
- pippin,
- ripper,
- ripsnorter,
- snorter,
- standout,
- sweetheart
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The first known use of sockdolager was circa 1830
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