单词 | mud-wrestling |
释义 | mud-wrestlingn. Originally U.S. A spectacle or sport in which contestants, usually female, wrestle in an arena filled with wet mud. Also (in extended use): an instance or act of fierce or strenuous contention. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > types of wrestling catch as catch cana1393 in-play1713 Cumberland and Westmorland (style, etc.)1823 Cornish wrestling1824 arm-wrestling1846 professional wrestling1884 sumo1893 all in1934 mud-wrestling1936 lucha libre1943 wrist-wrestling1973 1936 San Antonio (Texas) Express 24 June 11/1 (headline) Mud wrestling match tonight ruled out by Commissioner Nichols. 1938 Life 24 Jan. 23/1 (caption) In Akron, Ohio, on the night of Jan. 7, Miss Leona Gordon..and Miss Mildred Burke, ‘welterweights’ lace on their shoes for the first women's mud wrestling match ever staged. 1978 Washington Post 15 Dec. 40/1 The most likely reason for the game's popularity is that, as a form of violent catharsis, it is exceeded only by divorce or mudwrestling. 1987 Daily Tel. 17 Feb. 5/5 Pirate broadcasters who have been treating West Country viewers to late-night bursts of sex, profanity and female mud-wrestling. 1992 New Republic 8 June 28/1 Donohue put Bill Clinton on his show—and for half an hour engaged in a mud wrestling contest that was even too much for the studio audience. 1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 343 Then came the wet T-shirt competitions, mud wrestling four nights a week, and foxy boxing on Sunday mornings. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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