toe pick
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I hit my toe pick after I threw her,” Michael Marinaro of Canada said after precisely that happened during their calamitous short program at the Olympics on Friday night, “and I fell on my face.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022
Particularly for the toe pick jumps, the horizontal velocity you have can be used to do more like a pole-vaulting-type motion.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022
For toe pick jumps, you’re sort of vaulting off the toe pick to pop up.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022
Who knows what might have happened if not for a stray blade or a toe pick?
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2022
I planted my toe pick and that was the last thing I did for several months.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2011
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