superkick
verbEtymology From super- + kick.
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Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Professional wrestling, Sports, War, Wrestling to perform a superkick
superkick
noun/ˈsuːpɚkɪk/
Etymology From super- + kick.
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Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Professional wrestling, Sports, War, Wrestling A high side thrust kick attack, which sees the wrestler use the sole of the foot to strike an opponent's head or chin.
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Fantasy, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Literature, Martial arts, Media, Military, Politics, Publishing, Science fiction, Sports, Video games, War Rare An extremely strong kick, performed with proficiency, which differs from the common wrestling variation.
- Thirty minutes later this superkick landed me, when I came crashing back to earth, at the door of the Egyptian tomb.1920, The Saturday Evening Post, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, page 129:
- "Mere you-tickle-me-I-tickle you stuff. No Urge^([sic]) about that sort of thing; no Superkick;—well Starfire, if you know what I mean!"— she said it shyly, being young enough and Anglo-Saxon enough, to dread the language.1933, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Arabesque, Harper & Brothers, page 231:
2 more examples
- Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?1980, Berkley Middle School Yearbook, Berkley Public Library, page 29:
- At the end of the season, in December, they have a competitive and hilarious “superkick,’ a contest measuring accuracy, distance, and style (“style meaning how mongrelly your kicks are”), but that’s generally the extent of formal ceremony, a fact Kelly savors.2004, Brian Doyle, Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance, Cowley Publications, →ISBN, page 127: