Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
sucker punch
(suck¦er punch)
informal
noun
an unexpected punch or blow.
verb
(
sucker-punch
)
[
with object
]
hit (someone) with an unexpected punch or blow:
his father sucker-punched him and knocked him out
More words in this category
aerobicized
bound
2
bungee
butt
2
call-up
clothes line
corner forward
custodian
deadlock
delivery
field day
GAA
Nordic walking
ollie
patball
racecourse
ref
shuttlecock
slide
stroke
Nearby Words
succumb
succursal
succuss
such
suchlike
Suchow
suck
suck-up
sucker
sucker punch
suckerfish
sucket spoon
suckhole
sucking
sucking disc
suckle
suckler
suckling
Suckling, Sir John