Thesaurus results for SLUGGER

slugger

noun

Definition of slugger

as in boxer

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Recent Examples of slugger The slugger also has a $25 million club option in 2028 — his age-38 season — which the Yankees almost certainly would decline because of his injury history. — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Curse of the Bambino The roots of Boston’s misery stretched all the way back to 1919, when the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth – then a star pitcher and slugger who would become arguably the greatest player in baseball history – to the Yankees. — Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026 After Pete Crow-Armstrong’s walk-off home run Monday in an all-time classic, Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami damaged the left-field video board Tuesday with a massive home run off it and probably is waiting on the Cubs to send him the repair bill. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026 The Philadelphia slugger was initially called out at home before the play was challenged and overturned. — Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for slugger

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Noun

Among the regular participants are active-duty firefighters, lifeguards, professional boxers, National Guard personnel, yoga teachers and locals just looking for a fun way to get their cardio in.

— Jenna Belhumeur, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
The 49ers, an otherwise good team, have for the past couple of months been weaving and slipping bad news like a boxer trying to avoid a knockout punch.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of boxer

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The 50-year-old Ukrainian pugilist was engaged to Panettiere in 2013 during an on-and-off relationship that lasted nearly a decade.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2026
The group reached the office of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minneapolis who has a reputation as a political pugilist.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of pugilist

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But Ford had stripped these two unpainted entries down to the chassis, like prizefighters shedding final pounds before weigh-in.

— Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
The explosive jazz‑rock pianist – known for redefining piano performance with the physicality of a prizefighter and the swagger of a rock guitarist – is set to turn the DIA’s auditorium into something closer to a sonic combustion chamber.

— Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 24 Feb. 2026

Definition of prizefighter

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Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.

— Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 July 2019
All this real guts and glory in Philadelphia, yet one of the big tourist attractions is to run up the Art Museum steps the way a palooka named Rocky Balboa did on the silver screen.

— Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 1 Jan. 2018

Definition of palooka

Noun

As a child, Madix would put on shows for her pug, Ming, and a doll of Fievel, the mouse from An American Tail.

— Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 31 Aug. 2026
Fire officials said the people inside the vehicle were OK, but crews then had to locate and secure a pug that had been riding inside.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026