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UK
/hˈeɪmeɪkɐ/
]
[ US /ˈheɪˌmeɪkɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈheɪˌmeɪkɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing
- a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
How To Use haymaker In A Sentence
- The Duke regained his senses just in time to see another haymaker about to be launched in his direction.
- ‘Once I'm in the ring, I'm going to throw some haymakers,’ he said.
- Sullivan's handlers warned their man that Kilrain was using a strategy of hanging near the corners so that if Sullivan missed with one of his crushing haymakers he would strike the ring post.
- At every opportunity he strides straight forward and throws huge, windmill haymakers with his right hand that seldom connect.
- Believe me, I landed some haymakers in those eight debates that we had.
- It was one of those blows that is often described as a haymaker, and it made hay. Pirates of Venus
- In the case of Mitt Romney, it was because of the "Sunday punch" John McCain had landed -- the "haymaker" in fact, on Super Tuesday. Frank Mankiewicz: Boxing Metaphors: Fancy Footwork?
- He stops delivering mail to help some haymakers and is then off to the pub.
- In the distance to the left can be seen haystacks and, possibly, haymakers.
- Then the Wolves took a haymaker from the Pacers in the first 14 minutes. USATODAY.com
