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mud-wrestling

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[muhd-res-ling] / ˈmʌdˌrɛs lɪŋ /

noun

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


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“We kinda made it a mud-wrestling match, and that was to our favor,” WSU coach Kyle Smith said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

‘Never get in a mud-wrestling match with a pig; you’ll get dirty and the pig will have lots of fun.’

From Fox News • Nov. 14, 2018

But the proceedings quickly degenerated into a mud-wrestling match of irreconcilable worldviews.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2017

Henninger: Well, I don’t think anyone should want to get down in the mud and fight with Donald Trump, because he’s too good at mud-wrestling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2016

“The Martini Shot,” the bracing and witty novella that closes Pelecanos’s first collection of stories, is a sly consideration of this mud-wrestling match between art and commerce.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2015

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