airplane spin

American  

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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Example Sentences

Dallas guard Jason Terry, a graduate of Franklin High School in Seattle, has a trademark airplane spin after scoring.

From Seattle Times

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

From New York Times

Tony butted, gouged, rabbit-punched, hit high & low, dropped Lou with two lefts and an airplane spin, dropped him again and bounced on him, thumbed Lou's badly cut right eye and heeled it with his glove lacing, swung so hard with his murderous left that his pants almost fell off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally Londos whirled De Vito around his head in an "airplane spin," threw him down with a loud thud, sat on top of his chest until old fat Ernest Roeber, who used to be a professional wrestler and now referees many of Londos's championship bouts, patted his back for winning.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he lay in his Duke hospital bed, Hunter, as Shotgun, promised surgeon Tuttle that he would not only one day wrestle again but also personally subject her to one of wrestling's more flamboyant moves, the overhead, body-rotating Airplane Spin.

From Time Magazine Archive