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axel
1[ ak-suhl ]
noun
- a jump performed by a skater leaping from the front outer edge of one skate into the air to make 1½ rotations of the body and landing on the back outer edge of the other skate.
Axel
2[ ak-suhl ]
noun
- a male given name.
axel
/ ˈæksəl /
noun
- skating a jump in which the skater takes off from the forward outside edge of one skate, makes one and a half, two and a half, or three and a half turns in the air, and lands on the backward outside edge of the other skate
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Example Sentences
Four prisoners, Axel and Oscar (who turned out to be good guys) and Tomas and Andrew (thugs), all died as well.
How did Obama pull off this political equivalent of a triple axel?
Is an Adrian or an Austin more likely to be sensitive; an Axel more of a renegade; an Andrew more of an old-fashioned guy?
From Axel Olrik, though my debt to him is heavy, I find myself differing on several questions.
And she seemed to like Sir Axel's company—as, indeed, most people would.
But Sir Axel and his assiduity enhanced her value and buttressed her independence.
Now Axel Martini had taken part in the “May-combat” this year, and had come off victorious.
Something tells me that things won't be right between Axel and me again.
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