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limp-wrist

noun

Etymology

From limp + wrist.

  1. derived from *wrīþaną✻ — “to twist, turn”
  2. inherited from *wristuz✻
  3. inherited from *wristu✻
  4. inherited from wrist
  5. inherited from wrist
  6. compounded as limp-wrist — “limp + wrist”

Definitions

  1. A gay man, especially a flamboyant one.

  2. To hold a handgun with an insufficiently-firm-and-stiff grip while firing, allowing…

    To hold a handgun with an insufficiently-firm-and-stiff grip while firing, allowing recoil to move the frame of the gun too far rearward and causing the recoil spring to absorb too little energy from the slide for the action to cycle properly.

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