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Meanings of slogger in anglès

Someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner.

A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches.

Sinònims
Examples for "slugger"
Examples for "slugger"
1
Major League Baseball doesn't fine a slugger for breaking his bat.
News.com.au
2
Take your humble slugger up through ranks and finally earn a title fight.
The Guardian
3
Who was a more fearsome slugger, Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron?
Reuters
4
The O's slugger has hit 41 home runs, six of which came in September.
The Guardian
5
Major League Baseball had 23, led by St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols at No.
Reuters
Usage of slogger in anglès
1
Two negroes, including the slogger, fell to him in his first over.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
2
The slogger pulls up at last for a moment, fairly blown.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
3
Once called a dirty slogger, the stats tell a different story.
Radio NZ
4
Not bad at all for a man who five years earlier was a tail-end slogger called Pieterson.
The Guardian
5
A slogger came in next, and made runs rather rapidly, but nothing much happened until the Fourth Officer's third over.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
6
Gary Naylor: I obviously hope Pollard is OK, but what a joy to read of the bouncer sorting out the slogger.
The Guardian
7
Loud shouts rise from the boys of slogger's house, and the school-house are silent and vicious, ready to pick quarrels anywhere.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
8
A short rally at close quarters, and they close: in another moment the slogger is thrown again heavily for the third time.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
9
But now that he had broken down just in the middle of all the long words, the slogger's wrath was fairly roused.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
10
In fact, half the vice of the slogger's hitting is neutralized, for he daren't lunge out freely for fear of exposing his sides.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
11
After another round the slogger too seems to see that he can't go in and win right off, and has met his match or thereabouts.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
12
That's where Notre Pere will come into his own and it's not as if the giant eight-year-old can be dismissed as a mere slogger either.
The Irish Times
13
For an instant Burke the Slogger saw the glaring of a red lamp.
Condensed Novels
14
Constance must not arrive; Burke the Slogger must attend to that.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales / With Condensed Novels...
15
The road at any time was covered with tired foot sloggers.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
16
The heavily committed eight-hour-a-day sloggers would need only half that.
The Irish Times
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