cow bite

plural cow bites

1. A large pinch performed with the entire hand, squeezing everything between thumb and fingers rather than just using the fingertips.

   She pulled at the pants, inflicting some painful cow bites on Carl's legs.

   2012, J. W. Stockton, Fardnock's Revenge, →ISBN, page 81

   2 more examples

   "You two have been brought closer together by that cow bite, I see." "You said cow bite before, I guess you mean 'goose.' Do you?" Sissy asked.

   1975, Norman Keifetz, The Sensation, page 178

   He squeezed her thigh just above her knee, easily straddling it between fingers and thumb in a cow bite.

   2013, Austin Clark, Shadows and Mockery: A Ghost Story, →ISBN, page 114

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cow, bite.

present singular third person cow bites · participle present cow biting · past cow bit · participle past cow bitten

1. To administer a cow bite.

   You can use the grip to cow bite (grip, squeeze and twist) the tenderflesh on the inside of the upper arm.

   2009, Mark Hatmaker, Doug Werner, No Second Chance: A Reality-Based Guide to Self-Defense, →ISBN, page 130