Synonyms of the word

slugger

• n. a boxer who tends to deliver hard punches.
• n. (baseball) a batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

batsman

• n. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
• n. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
• n. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
• n. (baseball, now rare) A hitter.

batter

• v. to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
• v. to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
• v. to defeat soundly; to thrash.
• v. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
• v. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
• n. A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or…
• n. A binge, a heavy drinking session.
• n. A paste of clay or loam.
• n. (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
• v. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
• n. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
• n. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
• n. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

boxer

• n. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
• n. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
• n. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a…
• n. The person running a game of two-up.
• n. One who packs boxes.
• n. A letterboxer.

hitter

• n. Agent noun of hit; one who hits.
• n. (baseball) One who comes up to bat.

pugilist

• n. One who fights with his fists; especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

slogger

• n. (cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
• n. (colloquial) One who hits hard; a slugger.