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uppercut
[ uhp-er-kuht ]
noun
- a swinging blow directed upward, as to an adversary's chin.
- Bridge. a play of a higher trump than necessary knowing it can be overtrumped by an opponent but that if overtrumped, one or more trump winners in the hand of one's partner will be established.
verb (used with object)
- to strike (an opponent) with an uppercut.
verb (used without object)
- to deliver an uppercut.
- Bridge. to make an uppercut.
uppercut
/ ˈʌpəˌkʌt /
noun
- a short swinging upward blow with the fist delivered at an opponent's chin
verb
- to hit (an opponent) with an uppercut
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In February, witnesses told Deadspin that Ray Rice threw an “uppercut” and struck her “like he [would punch] a guy.”
He feinted, and drove a vicious uppercut to the jaw of Dr. Friedrich von Stein.
Don Mathers gripped his hands together into a double fist and brought them upward in a vicious uppercut.
Ponta hurled himself upon him with terrific force, delivering an uppercut and a straight punch.
Then, in the breakaways, he began to uppercut Ponta on the stomach, or to hook his jaw or strike straight out upon the mouth.
For while they had been lost in the smother of dust, Taylor had landed a deadening uppercut on the big mans chin.
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