Sunday punch

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noun

Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.

anything, as an armed force, line of argument, etc., capable of inflicting a powerful blow on a hostile or opposing person or thing.

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Origin of Sunday punch

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby Sunday punch

Sunday clothes, Sunday driver, Sunday-go-to-meeting, Sunday Morning, Sunday painter, Sunday punch, Sundays, Sunday school, Sunday supplement, sun deck, sunder

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How to use Sunday punch in a sentence

Congress is nearing a vote on the Keystone XL pipeline, and lawmakers made their cases for—and against—it Sunday.
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That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
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Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.
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When ‘Downton Abbey’ returns Sunday night, its fashion fans are in for a familiar treat.
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Those who are not working on Sunday will almost certainly attend the funeral for Liu.
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A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
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And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The fact that the day following the punishment parade was a Sunday brought about a certain relaxation from discipline.
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Hagley Road, on Sunday evenings, is particularly affected by some as their favourite promenade.
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Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.
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British Dictionary definitions for Sunday punch

Sunday punch

noun informal, mainly US

boxing a heavy blow intended to knock out one's opponent

any manoeuvre or action intended to crush an opponent

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