Malachi crunch

plural Malachi crunches

1. A simultaneous attack from two sides.

   That means I have cut the interior of my lips up during our performance via the ol' mic/tooth Malachi Crunch.

   1995, Maximum Rocknroll, number 143, San Francisco

   4 more examples

   Or did you have a full-on Malachi crunch? How soon you can hit the road again depends on the nature of the accident, the extent of the injury and the time it takes for a full recovery.

   2004, Scuba Diving, page 91

   I never would have guessed that the streets of my youth, trod by Jews walking to shul on Saturday and strafed by jetliners landing at nearby Kennedy Airport, were actually in the middle of a Malachi Crunch of hipness and cultural relevance back in the 1890s.

   2011, Ebin Weiss, Bike Snob, page 31

   Taking individual cars out Malachi-crunch style was certainly harder than simply driving over the top at them at high speeds and crushing them like old beer cans.

   2020, Douglas Lain, In the Shadow of the Towers

   But instead of Roman Holiday, Morrison found himself on the receiving end of a Malachi Crunch from Biden and Macron.

   2021 November 1, Katharine Murphy, “Archived copy”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 May 2022