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body-swerve, v. Brit.
Brit. |ˈbɒdiswəːv|, U.S. |ˈbɑdiˌswərv|
[‹ body swerve n. Compare swerve v.]
1. intr. orig. and chiefly Sport, esp. Association Football and Rugby Football. To make an abrupt dodging or swerving motion of the body to avoid collision or interception, esp. tactically in order to deceive an opponent as to one's intended direction of movement. Also trans.: to evade (a opponent, obstacle, etc.) by making a body swerve.
1985Guardian 23 Feb. 19/4 But I could remember the photograph which used to be pinned to the youth club wall—Stoke City stripes and baggy shorts, leaning at almost 45 degrees to body swerve around the fullback. 1994Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Sport section), Middlesbrough's sense of purpose was rediscovered as Moore began body-swerving his way down the left. 1998K. Sampson Extra Time 58 You'd rather [he]..gets in one of his unnecessarily robust slide tackles..than see McManaman bodyswerve him..and pull the ball back perfectly for little Owen to score. 2001Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 Dec. In the confusion of everyone searching for Joe, I grabbed my coat, body-swerved round the rocking-chair and bolted.
2. trans. fig. and in extended use. To evade or circumvent (a problem, impediment, or undesirable eventuality); to escape (trouble or difficulty), esp. adroitly; to take care to avoid (a place or area). Cf. to give (something) a body swerve at body swerve n. 2.
1992Glasgow Herald 1 Feb. (Weekender section) 9/1 There are people around who get paid to teach these people how to body-swerve the tricky issues. 1996Scotsman (Nexis) 23 Oct. 2 He advises the squeamish to bodyswerve the food markets, where squirming live things cluck and croak in teeming cages before their matter-of-fact execution. 1999S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. i. 65/1 Billy Bragg body-swerved his own reputation as political-commentator-in-chief to re-invent himself as Woody Guthrie's voice on earth with his Mermaid Avenue album of newly discovered Guthrie material. 2002Daily Star (Nexis) 2 Mar. 63 Martin O'Neill last night told ‘scapegoat’ Neil Lennon how to body-swerve bother. |