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straight-arm, a. and n.
[straight a. 1 d.]
A. adj. Performed with the arm stiff or unflexed; spec. in Cricket = straight-armed adj. s.v. straight a. 11 c (now Hist.).
1807Sporting Mag. July 192/1 The straight-arm bowling, introduced by John Willes, Esq. 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iii. 177 [Rocky] Leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a straight-arm swipe on the chest. 1977Time 21 Nov. 28/2 New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute.
B. n. N. Amer. Football. An act of warding off an opponent or making room for oneself with the arm held straight. Also fig. Cf. stiff-arm s.v. stiff a. 21 c.
1903W. T. Reid in W. Camp How to play Football (ed. 2) 85 Under no circumstances can a back use his ‘straight-arm’ more effectually than in the broken field running that forms such a big part of back-field work. 1927G. S. Lowman Pract. Football xii. 225 He must have good use of the straight-arm and must be able to hit and pivot. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 141/2 The numerous variants on straight-arm tactics, from lynch law to the third degree, all reduce to inner panic as their origin. 1969Maclean's Mag. Aug. 3/1 He had to get his kicks, like many of us, by watching the Good Guys belt the Bad Guys and imagining that it was him down there, handing out straight-arms.
Hence as v. trans. and intr. (also transf.); straight-arming vbl. n.
1934Webster, Straight-arm v. trans. 1934Crisler & Wieman Pract. Football vii. 81 (heading) Straight-arming. 1966R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experiment (1967) 95 They stamped on feet, straight-armed, jammed people in the middle, and cursed them. 1980‘R. B. Dominic’ Attending Physician xix. 174 Ben..did not pause, but straight-armed his way through the human barrier. |