arm-wrestle

noun

A bout of arm wrestling.

Similar
pull wrists
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Meanings

nounarm-wrestle (plural arm-wrestles)

plural arm-wrestles · alternative arm wrestle

  1. hobbiesA bout of arm wrestling.
verbarm-wrestle (third-person singular simple present arm-wrestles, present participle arm-wrestling, simple past and past participle arm-wrestled)

present singular third person arm-wrestles · participle present arm-wrestling · participle past arm-wrestled · past arm-wrestled · alternative arm wrestle

  1. ambitransitiveTo compete in an arm-wrestle (with).

    Synonyms: pull wrists

  2. ambitransitivebroadlyTo struggle (with) for dominance.

    In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize.

    2014, Rocco Rubini, The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger, →ISBN
    3 more examples

    Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law

    1996, Linda Ty-Casper, DreamEden, →ISBN, page 318

    I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further.

    1999, Roz D. Fox, Welcome to My Family, →ISBN, page 151

    The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today. Even if the playing fields for the superpowers' arm-wrestling matches are no longer Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, but instead Kabul, Tehran and Peshawar.

    2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo compete in an arm-wrestle (with).

Similar
pull wrists

Origin

From arm + wrestle.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 拗手瓜
  • 拗手瓜 (aau² sau² gwaa¹)to compete in an arm-wrestle
Chinese Mandarin 掰手腕
  • 掰手腕 (bāi shǒuwàn)to compete in an arm-wrestle
Danish lægge arm
  • lægge armto compete in an arm-wrestle
Dutch armworstelen
  • armworstelento compete in an arm-wrestle
Finnish vääntää kättä
  • vääntää kättäto compete in an arm-wrestle
German armdrücken
  • armdrückento compete in an arm-wrestle
Hindi पंजा लड़ाना
  • पंजा लड़ाना (pañjā laṛānā)to compete in an arm-wrestle
Hungarian szkanderezik
  • szkanderezikto compete in an arm-wrestle
Indonesian berpanco
  • berpancoto compete in an arm-wrestle
Italian fare a braccio di ferro
  • fare a braccio di ferroto compete in an arm-wrestle
Japanese アームレスリングする
  • アームレスリングする (āmu resuringu suru)to compete in an arm-wrestle
Māori mamau ringa
  • mamau ringato compete in an arm-wrestle
Polish siłować się, siłować na rękę
  • siłować sięto compete in an arm-wrestle
  • siłować na rękęto compete in an arm-wrestle
  • siłować się na rękęto compete in an arm-wrestle
Portuguese disputar queda de braço
  • disputar queda de braçoto compete in an arm-wrestle
Spanish pulsear, echar un pulso
  • pulsearto compete in an arm-wrestle
  • echar un pulsoto compete in an arm-wrestle
  • echar unas fuercitasto compete in an arm-wrestle
Cite this entry
APA

arm-wrestle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arm-wrestle

MLA

“arm-wrestle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arm-wrestle. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “arm-wrestle,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arm-wrestle.

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