Sockdolager

"Leap Year" uses 5/4 time; "Sockdolager" is an aggressive blues with a bass line that propels it forward; "Disinvited" sounds like a dramatically tweaked and revised version of the jazz standard "Invitation."

East Bay Express Rachel Swan 2010

Sockdolager - decisive blow or answer; something outstanding

languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE. 2004

Sockdolager - 2,790 #1 hit: "weird words" website.

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Sockdolager would have been tricky had I not recently come across the Lincoln association.

languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE. 2004

Sockdolager originally meant just a strong blow, like i-- ` That was a sockdolager of a punch you landed on me, 'or,

America In So Many Words 1998

Four hundred miles below Greenriver, we came to the Sockdolager Rapids, one of the best known rapids on the river but actually not the worst rapids by any means, one of the best known, perhaps, because of its name.

Floods 1937

We stood. at the head of the Sockdolager Rapids and tried to pick a channel through.

Floods 1937

And he related many strange things, most striking of which was how Moze had broken his chain and plunged into the raging Colorado River, and tried to swim it just above the terrible Sockdolager Rapids.

The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

Terrill Lankford said, when “Sockdolager” got into Best American Mystery Stories, “the only mystery in that story is ‘where’s the Crisco?’”

World’s Worst Interview: Scott Phillips Interviewed by Victor Gischler 2009