Usually means: Heavy tool for powerful smashing.
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  1. sledgehammer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sledgehammer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sledgehammer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sledgehammer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sledgehammer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sledgehammer, sledgehammer: Wordnik
  7. sledgehammer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sledgehammer: Wiktionary
  9. sledgehammer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sledgehammer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sledgehammer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sledgehammer: Dictionary.com
  13. sledgehammer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sledgehammer (Fifth Harmony song), Sledgehammer (Grey's Anatomy), Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song), Sledgehammer (Rihanna song), Sledgehammer (coup plan), Sledgehammer (disambiguation), Sledgehammer (film), Sledgehammer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. sledgehammer: Rhymezone
  16. sledgehammer: Free Dictionary
  17. sledgehammer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sledgehammer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. sledgehammer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Sledgehammer (tool), sledgehammer: Encyclopedia

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  1. sledgehammer: Idioms

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  1. Sledgehammer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sledgehammering as well.)

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noun:  A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
verb:  (transitive) To strike (something) with a sledgehammer.
adjective:  Completely lacking grace and dexterity.

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