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haymaker
noun as in prize fight
Example Sentences
He argued that Jackson had thrown a "haymaker of a punch" in anger.
Months of soul searching had led USC to the brink of that moment Saturday, having fought its way back once, then again, then again, returning every haymaker from Michigan with a punch of its own.
Following a nervous start, Catterall grew into the fight and gained control in the latter stages as Prograis desperately sought a knockout, twice sweeping himself off his own feet with attempted haymakers.
The angle from which the video was shot obscures whether the haymaker thrown by Julio Urías struck his wife.
The stalky power forward, a son of a professional Congolese boxer, tried to match every American haymaker with a punch of his own.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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