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haymaker noun- a powerful fist blow to the head US, 1902
- BRAD casually sets himself, then delivers the most powerful right hay-maker in the history of cinema. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 96, 1967
- Felix lashed back with a haymaker, right off the ghetto streets. — Piri Thomas, Stories from El Barrio, p. 138, 1978
- The black fighter had just landed a haymaker on the white fighter who was even now reeling across the ring on legs of jelly. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 3, 1984
- “Come on, you pup, you’re up against Gerry O’Byrne!” and laid the fellow out with an almighty haymaker in the breadbasket. — Aidan Higgins, Donkey’s Years, p. 149, 1995
- in cricket, a batsman’s powerful but reckless shot UK, 1954
- — Keith Foley, A Dictionary of Cricketing Terminology, p. 171, 1998
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