Meaning

3 senses
  1. A boxer who tends to deliver hard punches.

    a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches

  2. A batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits.

    That will bring up the slugger, Jones.

  3. (informal)Buddy, dude, champ.

    Good to see you, slugger!

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The slugger was easily put out.

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  2. The center fielder shifted his position for the slugger.

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Origin

From slug + -er.

From slug + -er.

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Forms

plural: sluggers
Singularslugger
Pluralsluggers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches:slogger
  • (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting:batterhitter

Word family

2 related words
Relatedslug

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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