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arm-wrestling

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for arm-wrestling.

Editorial note

Southwest's CEO (Herb Kelleher) made an offer to the other CEO: They skip the lawyers and settle it with an arm-wrestling contest.

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Quick take

Alternative form of arm wrestling. [A strength sport with two participants, in which each participant grips the other's hand and tries to pin the other's arm onto a surface.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of arm-wrestling gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative form of arm wrestling. [A strength sport with two participants, in which each participant grips the other's hand and tries to pin the other's arm onto a surface.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for arm-wrestling.

noun

Alternative form of arm wrestling. [A strength sport with two participants, in which each participant grips the other's hand and tries to pin the other's arm onto a surface.]

Example sentences

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Southwest's CEO (Herb Kelleher) made an offer to the other CEO: They skip the lawyers and settle it with an arm-wrestling contest.

2

Imagine if HN had an army of animatronic robots run an arm-wrestling tournament every hour to determine which stories reach the front page.

3

And yet it's hilarious to watch arm wrestling between a professional and a shredded gym rat twice the size of the arm-wrestling athlete.

4

Naturally, I inquired with the ouija board, channeling the spectral remnants of Ada Lovelace and Steve Jobs locked in arm-wrestling combat.

5

Nearly 20 years ago, arm-wrestling arcade machines needed to be recalled because it turns out people are strong enough to break their own arms (mainly male youths).

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As a child that teachers (nearly all women) tended to be biased against boys and downright dismissive of male dominated interests such as science fiction, video games or arm-wrestling.

7

A merit ocracy, by definition, is some sort of social hierarchy based on merit -- you take a test, you gather in the most bottle-caps, you beat your classmates at arm-wrestling.

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After arm-wrestling the senior administrators for months and months, a reporter and I literally drove to pick it up and were given a set of DVDs by the State of Maryland health department, Mental Hygiene Administration, and a ton of other acronyms these people fall under.

Quote examples

1

Yeah, arm-wrestling is kind of a specific skill that isn't covered by most "exercise" (including strength training) unless you are specifically focused on it.

2

I don't want to "scare the other guys in the gym" or "need a secretary to organize my dating life" all because I won't "lose an arm-wrestling contest to a girl".

3

Ireland and Spain were exemplary in the years leading to the crisis, beating Germany in the debt and surplus metrics.[0][1] Media like to show "feel good metric" to put a patriotic positive spin (us good, them bad) on the result of regular political arm-wrestling between temporarily weaker countries.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use arm-wrestling in a sentence?

Southwest's CEO (Herb Kelleher) made an offer to the other CEO: They skip the lawyers and settle it with an arm-wrestling contest.

What does arm-wrestling mean?

Alternative form of arm wrestling. [A strength sport with two participants, in which each participant grips the other's hand and tries to pin the other's arm onto a surface.]

What part of speech is arm-wrestling?

arm-wrestling is commonly used as noun.