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cross-buttock

noun

  1. a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

This was done quickly and scientifically, and it convinced Hodge that Bascomb could not work the cross-buttock on Merriwell.

Cross-buttock, an unexpected fling down or repulse; from a peculiar throw practised by wrestlers.

The last time you wrestled a fall with little Tremaine, he threw you easily with a cross-buttock, and he is but a ten-stone man.

Often and often do his bony fingers almost clutch our throat, or his foot is put out to give us a cross-buttock.

He'd given the little waistrel the cross-buttock, and felled him on his head.

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