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body drop

American  

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.


Etymology

Origin of body drop

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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“Boxing, when you slip-slide, dig to the body, drop up under the hook, come back with a hook? All that stuff beautiful, man, beautiful stuff,” he said.

From The New Yorker • May 21, 2015

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

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

She thought, with the heat of childishness, that she would give the blood out of her body, drop by drop, to comfort him.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

The men who have hold of the millionaire's body, drop it.

From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Adams, Francis A.

She allowed her body drop all the way to the floor.

From Scorched Earth by Petrovic, Walter D.

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