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- verb transitive Alternative form of
sucker punch .
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Examples
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Years later I heard that her parents had taken her out of school and put her into private tutoring after her grandfather had given her permission to sucker-punch one of her tormentors and she did it; she went right up in broad daylight and punched this girl in front of 30 witnesses.
Nikki Luongo: 'You Seem So Normal!' Nikki Luongo 2011
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Years later I heard that her parents had taken her out of school and put her into private tutoring after her grandfather had given her permission to sucker-punch one of her tormentors and she did it; she went right up in broad daylight and punched this girl in front of 30 witnesses.
Nikki Luongo: 'You Seem So Normal!' Nikki Luongo 2011
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I suppose Tolbert has a crystal ball, thereby NEVER making any decisions or mistakes that years later could render a 'sucker-punch'.
HuckPAC coordinator steps down, citing clemency decision 2009
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Reversals galore, triumph chased by a sucker-punch of tragedy, whipsawing from humor to suspense, punctuated by singing (Mags!) and clogging (Boyd!)
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In 1945, the Bears' Lee Artoe nailed the Packers' Larry Craig with a sucker-punch when the teams first played in Green Bay.
Green Bay Lines Up Against Chicago Cliff Christl 2011
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My third, the thinnest envelope from Colorado College, a sucker-punch to the gut.
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Starting with a fractious peace among the bikers as they try to pin Donna's murder on the rival Mayan gang, it performed the kind of sucker-punch of an ending that this show excels at: Gemma had organised a party to get everyone to forget their squabbles.
Have you been watching … Sons of Anarchy? Phelim O 2010
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He came running back like a man leaving the devil and said personal foul, unsportsmanlike conduct, for a sucker-punch I still can't find on the film.
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Over here is the bar where Snooki was decked by a sucker-punch to the face.
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Staggered by the cosmic sucker-punch, I swung by The Post mailroom on my way out the door -- something I never do.
Remembering Harvey Pekar, legendary bard of the cult comic book 2010
tim_retep commented on the word sucker-punch
(sucker-punch) v. - to hit with an unexpected punch or blow
From : Compact Oxford English Dictionary
July 30, 2009