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airplane spin

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noun

Wrestling.
  1. a maneuver in which a wrestler, grasping an opponent by the head and crotch, lifts the opponent's body crosswise overhead, lowers it to the shoulders for support, then spins around and throws the opponent back over the head to the mat.


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“Then you’d have the final move — body slam, drop kick, airplane spin, bulldog headlock, whatever.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2011

I tell him to folly that up with a airplane spin and a body slam.

From Hoiman and the Solar Circuit by Dewey, Gordon