all-in wrestling
Britishnoun
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Maybe if I'd been meeting an all-in wrestling champ or a dude from the hood I'd have been less taken aback, but I wasn't - I was proffering a welcoming hand to a highly sophisticated and extremely elegant 83-year old American fashion model called Carmen Dell'Orefice.
From BBC
Joust is in many ways a very old-fashioned, pre-video game game – a mutant form of the mix of tag and all-in wrestling played in schools across the world.
From Forbes
The intellectual and physical effort required to manoeuvre the human body up what is effectively a cliff of crumpled sandpaper is immediately apparent and awe-inspiring; it is chess and all-in wrestling and Where Eagles Dare rolled into one, with the added complication for the competitors yesterday that they had only two minutes to study the problems before starting an assault that had to take 16 minutes at most.
From The Guardian
The film, made by three leftwing intellectuals in Hollywood who felt "transplanted, in alien territory", looks at the more bizarre aspects of life in Los Angeles including faith-healers, strip joints, beauty parlours and the grotesqueries of all-in wrestling, seen through the eyes, more jaundiced than savage, of a divorcee.
From The Guardian
In the past he's found means to dramatise rugby, judo, all-in wrestling and skiing – now he takes the unexpected plunge into a musical about deep-sea diving.
From The Guardian
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