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View synonyms for body English

body English

noun

, Sports.
  1. a twisting of the body by a player as if to help a ball already hit, rolled, or kicked to travel in the desired direction.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of body English1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Idioms and Phrases

Movements of the body that express a person's feelings, as in His body English tells us just how tired he is . This expression originated about 1900 in such sports as bowling and ice hockey, where a player tries to influence the path of a ball or puck by moving his body in a particular direction. (It was based on the earlier use of English to mean “spin imparted to a ball.”)
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Example Sentences

Big name stars like Jessica Drake host soirees in the casino nightclubs including Vanity and Body English.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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