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Definition of slugfest in English: slugfestnounˈslʌɡfɛstˈsləɡˌfɛst North American informal A tough and challenging contest, especially in sports such as boxing and baseball. 〈北美，非正式〉激烈的争斗（或比赛）（尤指拳击、棒球等体育比赛） the fight brought back memories of the classic 1976 Lyle-Foreman slugfest those hearings turned into a rushed, circus-like political slugfest Example sentencesExamples - The games, the drama of a pitching duel, the back and forth of a slugfest, a pennant race between good teams (before the wild card made that just about defunct), the history and so much more.
- The top four points earners in the final Challenge standings each won their first-round race, setting up a slugfest in the semi-finals.
- If Cleveland needs slugfests, Oakland needs pitching duels.
- Not only did Denmark win the verbal slugfest, it dominated the 1-0 match.
- Our four services practice variations of it, and our doctrine emphasizes the need to strike the enemy where he is weak instead of fighting toe-to-toe slugfests.
- Bloodshed, even death, are overt objectives as extended Andean families, called ayllus, square off in slugfests that can last from a few minutes to nearly a week.
- I told him I often had to replace an online (in-my-mind) persona with the real world personality and the two entities often had a bit of a slugfest battling out who would be dominant.
- When I got on board - as a fan, if not a true believer - the group was entrenched in a slugfest with the flourishing occult business.
- By now the match had settled into a slugfest for possession and territory.
- And they didn't disappoint the crowd of just over 3,000, posting two unanswered second-half tries in a spirited display as the weather deteriorated, reducing the match to a slugfest.
- Rather than fight toe-to-toe slugfests, American military officers prefer to back off, pound the enemy with precision airpower and artillery, and ‘set the conditions’ for a ground assault.
- Covering these slugfests blends sports reporting and instant history.
- And a slugfest is just what the '04 race could become, especially if Dean's insurgency continues to pick up steam.
- Every night, it's gladiatorial slugfests and verbal duels to the death.
- Clarke's performance poisoned the public hearings, leading to weeks of a partisan slugfest.
- Both were settling into the fight, which was establishing itself as a boxing match and not a slugfest at all.
- The 1884 slugfest also serves as a reminder that a single ill-advised sentence from a warm-up speaker or a campaign surrogate can easily explode into a full-scale flap when time and partisan tempers are short.
- As the opposite sides in the mayoral race draw their lines and gear up for the all-island slugfest, the detritus of local obsolete municipal councils are getting themselves ready to make their now-squelched voices heard.
- This is basically an even matchup, a toe-to-toe slugfest of a heavyweight championship battle in the making.
- In this way, players have to be much more deliberate about the punch that's thrown, because trying to turn the match into a slugfest will only tire your boxer out and make him susceptible to a quick knockout from your rival.
OriginEarly 20th century: from slug2 + -fest. Definition of slugfest in US English: slugfestnounˈsləɡˌfɛstˈsləɡˌfest North American informal A tough and challenging contest, especially in sports such as boxing and baseball. 〈北美，非正式〉激烈的争斗（或比赛）（尤指拳击、棒球等体育比赛） the fight brought back memories of the classic 1976 Lyle-Foreman slugfest those hearings turned into a rushed, circus-like political slugfest Example sentencesExamples - Bloodshed, even death, are overt objectives as extended Andean families, called ayllus, square off in slugfests that can last from a few minutes to nearly a week.
- Both were settling into the fight, which was establishing itself as a boxing match and not a slugfest at all.
- This is basically an even matchup, a toe-to-toe slugfest of a heavyweight championship battle in the making.
- If Cleveland needs slugfests, Oakland needs pitching duels.
- The games, the drama of a pitching duel, the back and forth of a slugfest, a pennant race between good teams (before the wild card made that just about defunct), the history and so much more.
- I told him I often had to replace an online (in-my-mind) persona with the real world personality and the two entities often had a bit of a slugfest battling out who would be dominant.
- And they didn't disappoint the crowd of just over 3,000, posting two unanswered second-half tries in a spirited display as the weather deteriorated, reducing the match to a slugfest.
- The top four points earners in the final Challenge standings each won their first-round race, setting up a slugfest in the semi-finals.
- Every night, it's gladiatorial slugfests and verbal duels to the death.
- When I got on board - as a fan, if not a true believer - the group was entrenched in a slugfest with the flourishing occult business.
- Not only did Denmark win the verbal slugfest, it dominated the 1-0 match.
- The 1884 slugfest also serves as a reminder that a single ill-advised sentence from a warm-up speaker or a campaign surrogate can easily explode into a full-scale flap when time and partisan tempers are short.
- Rather than fight toe-to-toe slugfests, American military officers prefer to back off, pound the enemy with precision airpower and artillery, and ‘set the conditions’ for a ground assault.
- Clarke's performance poisoned the public hearings, leading to weeks of a partisan slugfest.
- Covering these slugfests blends sports reporting and instant history.
- As the opposite sides in the mayoral race draw their lines and gear up for the all-island slugfest, the detritus of local obsolete municipal councils are getting themselves ready to make their now-squelched voices heard.
- By now the match had settled into a slugfest for possession and territory.
- In this way, players have to be much more deliberate about the punch that's thrown, because trying to turn the match into a slugfest will only tire your boxer out and make him susceptible to a quick knockout from your rival.
- Our four services practice variations of it, and our doctrine emphasizes the need to strike the enemy where he is weak instead of fighting toe-to-toe slugfests.
- And a slugfest is just what the '04 race could become, especially if Dean's insurgency continues to pick up steam.
OriginEarly 20th century: from slug + -fest. |