arm-wrestle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Rock-bottom Perpignan lost a turgid arm-wrestle at Castres 23-7 despite opening the scoring.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
The American converted four of eight break points in an arm-wrestle of a contest against Giron.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
If England's romp to 283 in less than 55 overs ensured day one was never short of incident, day two was a more sedate arm-wrestle punctuated by moments of theatre.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
This is not a scheme to get over here and live in a low-income community and scrape by in the middle of nowhere, arm-wrestle the locals for imagined riches or create problems.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
“Yeah! Made me arm-wrestle her. My Danish for her knife.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Bill Murray shouted the lyrics to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” and later arm-wrestled with a fan.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
I’ve also arm-wrestled with Kathryn for the rights to talk Babylon Berlin and won, so put a pin in that for me.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020
It was a bad move by Phil because Miller is left-handed and had also arm-wrestled a lot as a kid growing up in San Francisco.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 11, 2017
After two seasons and a 12-20 record, he left Washington with most of the outlandish 5-year, $25 million contract he arm-wrestled owner Dan Snyder for and went back to the college ranks at South Carolina.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2015
Sitting at the bar, Odum and Brannon arm-wrestled while members of the squadron slapped down money on the bar betting on their favorites.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
At almost every turn, there appeared to be diplomatic arm-wrestling between US and Chinese over timings, positions and alleged last-minute schedule changes.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Obadia spends much of her days managing their affairs now and arm-wrestling with bureaucracies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Or petition for a change in roommates by arm-wrestling the dean.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Some of Giroux’s best moments came off the ice, like the time former coach Craig Berube challenged Giroux to an arm-wrestling contest at a bar in Nashville.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
“You really think you can beat Death in an arm-wrestling match?”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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