body drop

noun

1. a judo throw executed by grabbing the opponent as one is turning one's back and then extending a leg to pull the opponent down over it.

Word History and Origins

Origin of body drop¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Prosecutors had sought to introduce several lines written by Jordan that described first-person accounts of violence and drug dealing, including: “We aim for the head, no body shots, and we stick around just to see the body drop.”

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One Saturday afternoon in Lexington, Miss., when he was about 15, he watched — from a distance — as a cheering White crowd dragged a Black man up the steps of the courthouse, tied a rope around his neck and let his body drop from a wooden platform crafted for the occasion.

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I remember, as many do, the first time I watched Mufasa’s body drop into the gorge, the wildebeests stampeding below.

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Let her body drop into the water, felt the tide carry her gently back to the safe, sturdy ground.

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“Until I saw a body drop on the ground and the bangs continued. There was bullets flying everywhere.”

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