slugger
Americannoun
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sluggers
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a person who strikes hard, especially a boxer noted for the ability to deliver hard punches.
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Baseball. a player who frequently gets extra-base hits; a strong hitter.
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The Rays have the best slugger they’ve ever had in their history: third baseman Junior Caminero, who hit 42 homers during the regular season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Phillies have upended a century of baseball lineup wisdom by putting their slugger in the leadoff spot and batting their contact hitter cleanup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The new owner quickly signed the best players in baseball — slugger Vladimir Guerrero and pitcher Bartolo Colón.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
If anything can get someone to run home and turn on a softball game, it’s a big-time slugger from a big-time school mashing homers like nobody before.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
I didn’t even know if the slugger was still there; I just kept walking.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
At the plate was Yordan Alvarez, one of MLB’s biggest sluggers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
When Ben Rice began his junior year at Dartmouth, he wasn’t thinking about the major-league draft or a future as one of the most fearsome sluggers on the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The Venezuelan aces and sluggers simply played better than their American counterparts.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026
Chicago started left-hander reliever Drew Pomeranz as the clubs hoped to subdue sluggers who had combined for a one-series MLB playoff record 21 first-inning runs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025
The sluggers had ditched the phone but left the tape.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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