mud-wrestling

[ muhd-res-ling ]

/ ˈmʌdˌrɛs lɪŋ /

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wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.

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He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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The wrestling fans are “incredibly horrifying when you age,” Madusa, now 50, wrote.
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Then, in 1985, du Pont turned his attention (and Forbes-estimated $200 million fortune) to wrestling.
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He poured millions into building Foxcatcher Farm, a wrestling facility boasting top-of-the-line weight machines.
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Between 1989 and 1995, du Pont donated $400,000 a year to USA Wrestling.
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Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
The sun was palely shining upon dry, clean pavements and upon roads juicy with black mud.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
Frank leaped ashore and pushed the boat off, while Mayne held her by jamming the leeward oar into the mud.
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A cannon-ball crashed through the mud wall and bounded across the enclosure.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy