Sledge Definition
A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
To hit with a sledgehammer.
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Origin of Sledge
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From Sledge (“a surname"), influenced by sledgehammer. Australian from 1960s.According to Ian Chappell, originated in Adelaide during the 1963/4 or 1964/5 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was taken to be as subtle as a sledgehammer (meaning unsubtle) and was called “Percy" or “Sledge", from singer Percy Sledge (whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was a hit at the time). Directing insults or obsenities at the opposition team then became known as sledging.
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Dutch dialectal sleedse perhaps diminutive of Dutch slede sled from Middle Dutch sledde
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Dialectal Dutch sleedse
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Old English slecg.
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