hard hitter

noun

NZ informal a bowler hat

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schlep

to say or do hesitantly or awkwardly

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to carry; lug

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Words nearby hard hitter

hard goods, hard ground, hard hat, hard head, hard hit, be, hard hitter, hard knocks, hard labor, hard labour, hard landing, hard lens

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Example sentences from the Web for hard hitter

You see, he was such a picture of a man's man in every sense of the word; a fighter and a hard-hitter, right from the jump.
The Wreckers|Francis Lynde
Then came Hopkins, the hard-hitter, and swung his bat knowingly.
Weatherby's Inning|Ralph Henry Barbour