sockeroon.
/ˌsɒkəˈruː/ slang (originally U.S.).
Something with an overwhelming impact, a ‘smash’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing
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1942 Time 9 Nov. 77/2 The act was an old-fashioned Hippodrome sockeroo.
1943 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 18 Dec. 16/3 This program..was a boff, a wham, a sockeroo.
1964 Spectator 7 Feb. 178 This latest box-office sockeroo also provides a modest example of the industry's throat-cutting activities.
1977 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 13 The Royal Court's new régime opens with a great loud sockeroo of a play, a thumping American drama of a divided family, rich in purple prose and loaded with gutsy symbolism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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n.1942