单词 | rag-doll |
释义 | rag-dollv. Originally and chiefly North American. 1. intransitive. Originally: to relax one's body and limbs entirely. In later use: to tumble or be thrown in a violent, uncontrolled manner. ΚΠ 1943 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 4 Feb. 12/8 I would not advise you to rag-doll through your setter-uppers. But freedom during the exercises is important. 1987 Paris (Texas) News 23 Apr. 4/6 ‘She..skidded down and hit his leg and then just sort of rag-dolled off,’ unconscious and out of control. 1996 Plow Snowboarding Mag. Dec. 83/1 He bounced and rag-dolled dangerously close to a patch of rocks. 2007 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. Sept. 56/1 So this was how the day would end for Nicky Hayden, rag-dolling through the rain at 140 miles per hour, his season shattered like his motorcycle. 2. a. transitive. To throw or manhandle (a person) violently and with ease. Also figurative: to defeat (an opponent) easily and soundly. ΚΠ 1962 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl.-World 19 Nov. 12/1 The Huskers rag-dolled the ineffective Jayhawks 40-16. 1988 Winnipeg Free Press 2 Dec. 49/1 He has whacked Lyndon Byers and rag-dolled Penguins' Richard Zemlak. 2004 R. Kurson Shadow Divers Epilogue 326 Bodies would have been rag-dolled off machinery and other structures. 2008 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 4 Jan. iv. 10/5 Barton called Dorsey the best lineman the Buckeyes have seen this season. ‘He gets his hands on people and just rag-dolls them.’ b. transitive. Surfing. Of the sea, a powerful wave, etc.: to toss (a person) around violently, esp. underwater. Frequently in passive. ΚΠ 1999 M. Parson in J. Long & H.-V. K. Sponholz Big Drop 111 We both surfaced, and I was a good 50 yards in from Taylor after getting rag-dolled underwater. 2002 Vanity Fair July 127/1 Many a driver has stood by, paralyzed with fear, as his fellow surfer got seriously ‘ragdolled’. 2015 J. Nelson I'll give you Sun (U.K. ed.) 428 He swam, I surfed, or more accurately, I got rag-dolled wave after wave. Derivatives ˈrag-dolled adj. ΚΠ 1952 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl.-World 15 Sept. 6/4 Gil blasted off tackle so hard he left about three potential tacklers rag-dolled on the turf. 2007 D. Bellavia & J. R. Bruning House to House 4 Sergeant Warren Misa steps over a rag-dolled Iraqi corpse. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1943 |
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