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kidney punch

noun

Definitions

  1. A blow struck with the fist to the lower back region, capable of causing serious internal…

    A blow struck with the fist to the lower back region, capable of causing serious internal injury and not permitted under the rules of boxing.

    • Following the bout, Schmeling said he was fouled. He said that he was hit a kidney punch, a devastating right, which so shocked his nervous system that he was dazed and his vision was blurred
    • These fees have ballooned. . . . That has hit advertising like a kidney punch.
    • When the champion landed a vicious left-handed kidney punch early in the fourth, Azzaoui crumpled to the canvas.

  2. To deliver such a blow.

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