slugfest
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noun Informal.
1.
a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
2.
a boxing bout in which the boxers exchange powerful blows vigorously and aggressively with little care for defense.
3.
an intense conflict or combat.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a boxing match in which opponents trade heavy blowsany sporting contest between powerful and evenly matched opponents |
| 2. | a boxing match in which opponents trade heavy blowsany sporting contest between powerful and evenly matched opponents |
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Slugfest
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
The governor was soon in the sort of slow slugfest his foes excelled at.
It's a mandible-on-mandible slugfest that ends when only one wasp remains.
We will be polite for a while but once the slugfest resumes-and politics is a slugfest-the old invective will slip back in.
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