ARM WRESTLING Definition & Meaning

arm wrestling

Or arm-wrestling

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a form of wrestling in which two opponents, usually facing each other across a table, rest their right or left elbows on the table and, placing their corresponding forearms upward and parallel, grip each other's hand, the object being to force the opponent's hand down so that it touches the table.

arm wrestling

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a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table

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Organisers of the event say the sport, founded in a pub in the 1970s, is "like arm wrestling, but with feet".

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Silly skits that the director constructs for them — arm wrestling, watching “Superbad” — sit alongside quotidian snippets of their inner lives.

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Lira, however, denied there was "constant confrontation" with the president: "There is no arm wrestling between Lula and Lira ... but Congress is conservative and some topics are difficult to pass," he said.

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“Arm wrestling? It would not have been pretty.”

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Then arm wrestling and shoving someone away — as White did, when he put his hands on a woman.

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