facer

1. (slang, obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing.Examples: "I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one."obsoleteslang

2. (slang, by extension) An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.Examples: "“You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer."; "He [Joschka Fischer] was for Nato, looser visa rules and—quite the facer for his pacifist colleagues—the bombing of Serbia."Synonyms: slap in the facebroadlyslang

3. (slang) A serving of alcoholic drink; a dram.Examples: "Dory […] poured a little whisky into a glass, and grew reminiscent. “I had a facer myself this morning before I came down,” he said."slang