Arm-wrestle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Arm-wrestle is a noun meaning (sports) A bout of arm wrestling.
Meaning
(sports) A bout of arm wrestling.
More Meanings
- (ambitransitive) To compete in an arm-wrestle (with).
- (ambitransitive, by extension) To struggle (with) for dominance.
Example Sentences
In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize.
I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further.
Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law
The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today. Even if the playing fields for the superpowers' arm-wrestling matches are no longer Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, but instead Kabul, Tehran and Peshawar.
Word Forms
- arm-wrestles
- arm-wrestling
- arm-wrestled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wrestle, wrestling, fight, chicken wing, overarm, wristlock.
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