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noun

Slugging match n.

A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. (Cant or Slang)

A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. (Slang, U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Slugging match'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slugging match" Quotes from Famous Books

... must have been nearly as tame as barndoor fowl. The shooting, then, must have been one long drawn-out massacre of semi-tame animals, with hardly a breathing interval. I confess such a record seems to me as absolutely devoid of sport and as full of brutality as the worst slugging match between Princeton and Yale; and it, moreover, lacks the element of physical courage which is certainly necessary in the football match. Besides, the English sinners are grown men and members of the class which is supposed to set the pattern for the ...

— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead