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arm-wrestle

noun

Etymology

From arm + wrestle.

  1. inherited from *wreyt-✻ — “to twist”
  2. inherited from *wraistijaną✻ — “to turn; to twist, wrest”
  3. inherited from wrǣstlian — “to wrestle”
  4. inherited from wrestlen,wrastlen — “to engage in grappling combat or sport, struggle, wrestle; to twist and turn, squirm, wriggle, writhe; (figurative) to contend, grapple with, struggle”
  5. compounded as arm-wrestle — “arm + wrestle”

Definitions

  1. A bout of arm wrestling.

  2. To compete in an arm-wrestle (with).

  3. To struggle (with) for dominance.

    • Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law
    • I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further.
    • In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA