单词 | tomahawk chop |
释义 | tomahawk chopn. Chiefly U.S. ΚΠ 1823 W. Littell Rep. Court of Appeals Kentucky 3 75 There is no contrariety among these witnesses as to the many tomahawk chops then existing on the tree. 1912 Reg. Kentucky State Hist. Soc. 10 75 The late Dr. Robert W. Pearce, of Louisville, stated to the writer that ‘near the sink where were buried the fourteen pioneers, a tree was standing marked by fourteen tomahawk chops’. 2. a. Wrestling. A sharp downward blow made with the side of the open hand. ΚΠ 1951 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 23 Dec. a28/2 He excels in leg locks and drop kicks while his tomahawk chops are a take-off of the dreaded judo cut. 1982 P. Muldoon in Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 537/2 Next week would see Billy back on his feet For one of his withering Tomahawk Chops To a Bengali's craw. 2006 B. Graham & K. E. Greenberg Tangled Ropes 141 I convinced him to hit me with Tomahawk chops instead. b. An arm gesture in which the side of the open hand is moved up and down in a slicing motion while the elbow remains bent, in imitation of a blow made with a tomahawk.Such a gesture is typically associated with the fans of U.S. sports teams whose names refer to North American Indians, such as the Atlanta Braves baseball team (see, e.g., quot. 1991). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > other irpe1601 impression1613 eye-roll1928 air-punching1953 moony1987 tomahawk chop1991 facepalm1996 1991 Frederick (Maryland) Post 12 Aug. b5/2 By far the biggest craze to hit Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium is a cheer, the ‘Tomahawk Chop’. Fans [of the Atlanta Braves] move their arms in a hacking motion, as if they were holding a tomahawk, to the beat of a tom-tom played over the loudspeakers. A war cry accompanies the motions. 1999 Wall St. Jrnl. 31 Dec. (Eastern ed.) w5/4 The Seminole fans' controversial tomahawk chop. 2010 E. Doss Memorial Mania (2012) vi. 340 Professional sports teams downplayed the controversy, disingenuously claiming that their mock-Indian names, mascots, tomahawk chops, and war chants actually ‘honored’ Native Americans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823 |
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