no-sell

present singular third person no-sells · participle present no-selling · participle past no-sold · past no-sold

1. transitivecombat sportsTo act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect.

   Powell was doing his best to no-sell a previous exchange. And he was right — Reyes' strikes didn't hurt him or really hit him.

   2017 June 2, MMA Fighting Newswire, “Fighter shakes head saying a strike didn't hurt — then gets KO'd by head kick”, in MMA Fighting

2. transitiveTo shrug off; to withstand without significant reaction or injury.

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   So the bulges would give them a huge amount more buoyancy, which would allow them to navigate narrower channels; the guns would need to be modified so that they could fire at a higher angle, which'd give them better shore-bombardment capability; but, as I say, the decks - and we're not talking internal work; we're literally talking the external deck, just slapping four inches of steel on top of it all, which would, to a certain extent, counteract the extra buoyancy given by the bulges - but the idea was that this four-inch deck on the exterior could no-sell basically any general-purpose bomb that could be dropped on it[…]

   2022 September 11, Drachinifel, 56:53 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 213 (Part 1), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2022