body-slam

A form of bodyslam — To throw an opponent bodily on the floor, e.g. in wrestling or judo, sometimes also throwing one's own body on top of them

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Meanings

verbbody-slam (third-person singular simple present body-slams, present participle body-slamming, simple past and past participle body-slammed)

present singular third person body-slams · participle present body-slamming · participle past body-slammed · past body-slammed

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bodyslam.

    I'm going to body-slam your client at trial until he wishes he had been more cooperative and you wish you had been more persuasive.

    2001, Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls, page 176
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APA

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Chicago

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