Definitions
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- noun slang, dated Something remarkably impressive or successful.
Etymologies
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Compare sockdolager, socko.
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Examples
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Time's Richard Corliss: Loach may not be a sockeroo filmmaker - I think he is a sufficient one in his slightly stodgy way - but he is manifestly a good and thoughtful man and The Wind That Shakes the Barley represents his gifts at something like their best.
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I know so well what you mean by the need to have the sockeroo first page before you can go on, and I don't know that it's so bad.
Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters Mailer, Norman 2009
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Richard Corliss: "Loach may not be a sockeroo filmmaker - I think he is a sufficient one in his slightly stodgy way - but he is manifestly a good and thoughtful man and
GreenCine Daily 2009
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