Meaning

A blow in which the heel of the palm strikes an opponent..

Definitions by Sense

1. A blow in which the heel of the palm strikes an opponent.
2. (orthopedics) A technique for evaluating the reduction of a hip or femur by holding the patient's heels in one's palms with both legs in abduction and internal rotation, then noting the amount of external rotation of the feet when the internal rotation is released.
3. To strike with a heel-palm blow.

Example Sentences

... and I smashed my hand down on the gun to my left and it roared and I felt for the man's throat and made the kill as the other man brought his gun up and fired wild and I went in very close and used a heel-palm and drove the nose bone upward into the brain as Ibrahimi screamed something and I saw the flash of a blade and blocked it....

In one-step number two the defender does a knife-hand block. Then he punches with his right hand. And he finishes with a left heel-palm.

I blocked a punch, blocked a kick, and answered with a heel-palm to the first man's throat.

Whichever of these methods of manipulative reduction is used, a simple test for reduction, the Leadbetter heel-palm test, can be applied.

When the guys cornered her, she screamed, "No!" as she heel-palmed the first guy.

He brought his knee up into the male's groin and heel-palmed his face.

He rocked back a little on his feet and tucked his chin so I heel-palmed him across the bridge of his nose with my left.

Word Forms

• heel-palms
• heel palm
• heel-palming
• heel-palmed

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Use heel-palm when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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