Etymology

yorikiri

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Today it means: A kimarite in which the attacker drives his opponent out backwards while maintaining a constant grip on his mawashi. Full definition →

Japanese 寄り切り
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from寄り切り“frontal force out”
  2. English todayyorikiri

From Japanese 寄り切り (yorikiri, “frontal force out”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.