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cross-buttock

noun

Etymology

From cross- + buttock.

  1. inherited from buttuc — “end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”
  2. inherited from buttok
  3. formed as cross-buttock — “cross- + buttock”

Definitions

  1. A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg…

    A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip.

  2. An unexpected defeat or repulse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cross-buttock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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