slugger

Other forms of slugger

plural

sluggers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slugger

What does slugger mean?

slugger means "(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slugger?

slugger has 2 syllables: slug-ger. The stress falls on "slug". In IPA it is /ˈslʌɡɚ/.

What is another word for slugger?

Close synonyms include batter, hitter, batsman, slogger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slugger a common word?

slugger is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.