straight-armadj.n.

Etymology: straight adj. 2d.

A. adj.

Performed with the arm stiff or unflexed; spec. in Cricket = straight-armed adj. at straight adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1c (now Historical).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [adjective] > manner of bowling

straight-arm1807

straight-armed1827

round-arm1835

round hand1847

underhand1850

round-armed1854

wristy1867

fast-medium1873

under-arm1877

quick1899

windmill1900

body line1932

the world > movement > bodily movement > [adjective] > done by specific movement of part

overhand1656

front-handed1843

wristy1867

straight-arm1946

1807 Sporting Mag. July 192/1 The straight-arm bowling, introduced by John Willes, Esq.

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iii. 177 [Rocky] Leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a straight-arm swipe on the chest.

1977 Time 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. American Football.

An act of warding off an opponent or making room for oneself with the arm held straight. Also figurative. Cf. stiff-arm vb. at stiff adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1b.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

rush1857

punt-out1861

goal-kicking1871

safety1879

safety touchdown1879

scrimmage1880

rushing1882

safety touch1884

touchback1884

forward pass1890

run1890

blocking1891

signal1891

fake1893

onside kick1895

tandem-play1895

pass play1896

spiral1896

shift1901

end run1902

straight-arm1903

quarterback sneak1904

runback1905

roughing1906

Minnesota shift1910

quarterbacking1910

snap-back1910

pickoff1912

punt return1914

screen forward pass1915

screen pass1920

power play1921

sneak1921

passback1922

snap1922

defence1923

reverse1924

carry1927

lateral1927

stiff-arm1927

zone1927

zone defence1927

submarine charge1928

squib1929

block1931

pass rushing1933

safetying1933

trap play1933

end-around1934

straight-arming1934

trap1935

mousetrap1936

buttonhook1938

blitzing1940

hand-off1940

pitchout1946

slant1947

strike1947

draw play1948

shovel pass1948

bootleg1949

option1950

red dog1950

red-dogging1951

rollout1951

submarine1952

sleeper pass1954

draw1956

bomb1960

swing pass1960

pass rush1962

blitz1963

spearing1964

onsides kick1965

takeaway1967

quarterback sack1968

smash-mouth1968

veer1968

turn-over1969

bump-and-run1970

scramble1971

sack1972

nose tackle1975

nickel1979

pressure1981

1903 W. 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.

1927 G. S. Lowman Pract. Football xii. 225 He must have good use of the straight-arm and must be able to hit and pivot.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 141/2 The numerous variants on straight-arm tactics, from lynch law to the third degree, all reduce to inner panic as their origin.

1969 Maclean's 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.

Derivatives

straight-arm v. transitive and intransitive (also transferred).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > play American football [verb (transitive)] > actions to players

tackle1884

nail1888

block1889

quarterback1892

rough1904

rush1913

to fake out1931

straight-arm1934

submarine1941

red-dog1950

clothesline1959

spear1964

sack1969

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Straight-arm v. trans.

1966 R. H. Rimmer Harrad Exper. (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.

straight-arming n.

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