Meaning

(transitive, combat sports) To act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, combat sports) To act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect.
2. (transitive) To shrug off; to withstand without significant reaction or injury.

Example Sentences

Powell was doing his best to no-sell a previous exchange. And he was right — Reyes' strikes didn't hurt him or really hit him.

So the bulges would give them a huge amount more buoyancy, which would allow them to navigate narrower channels; the guns would need to be modified so that they could fire at a higher angle, which'd give them better shore-bombardment capability; but, as I say, the decks - and we're not talking internal work; we're literally talking the external deck, just slapping four inches of steel on top of it all, which would, to a certain extent, counteract the extra buoyancy given by the bulges - but the idea was that this four-inch deck on the exterior could no-sell basically any general-purpose bomb that could be dropped on it[…]

Word Forms

• no-sells
• no-selling
• no-sold

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