armstand dive

[ ahrm-stand ]

/ ˈɑrmˌstænd /

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noun

a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.

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Origin of armstand dive

Probably earlier than 1975–80; arm¹ + stand

Words nearby armstand dive

Arms and the Man, arms control, armscye, arm's-length, arms race, armstand dive, Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis, arm-twist, arm-twisting, armure

How to use armstand dive in a sentence

Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.
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When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.
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The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.
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We wanted to create a dedicated hub where people can dive into it and get all this commentary on the news.
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They'd never be allowed to take their clothes off and dive in the way boys do.
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Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.
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He proved that one night when we picked up a quartet of drunks at a dive on the south end of our district.
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I shoved through the door of the dive, Burke following close behind.
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Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various