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hard hitter

noun
  1. NZ informal a bowler hat
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Historical Examples of hard hitter

  • Then came Hopkins, the hard-hitter, and swung his bat knowingly.

    Weatherby's Inning

    Ralph Henry Barbour

  • 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