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View synonyms for slugfest
slugfest
[ sluhg-fest ]
noun
, Informal.
- a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- a boxing bout in which the boxers exchange powerful blows vigorously and aggressively with little care for defense.
- an intense conflict or combat.
slugfest
/ ˈslʌɡˌfɛst /
noun
- a boxing match in which opponents trade heavy blows
- any sporting contest between powerful and evenly matched opponents
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This is a job for independent committees, like Bowles-Simpson, not a partisan slugfest.
From The Daily Beast
The hearing was billed in the press as more than just another partisan slugfest.
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But if Gingrich heads to the showers, a Romney-Santorum slugfest could go all the way to Tampa.
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After all, the Fox News faceoff has all the elements needed for a slugfest.
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“It was encouraging,” Bob Schuman, of an independent committee called Americans for Rick Perry, said of the two-hour GOP slugfest.
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