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
  • California dreams and nightmares The Cheesecake Factory is a punchline.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • On the floor beside him, the dog was feebly pursuing some quarry in a dream.
    — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 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
  • From an avant-garde temple to to contemporary buildings constructed to resemble skeletal forms, below are architectural marvels that reveal why skeletons remain an enduring muse for architects.
    — Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In a $220 million gamble, its public power utility, EPB, has helped transform the once struggling post-industrial city into an unlikely marvel of civic reinvention, and an inspiration for many other dozens of copycat towns around the country.
    — Sara Herschander, Vox, 29 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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