uppercut
上勾拳,上钩,上钩机,上勾拳法
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Definitions
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- : a swinging blow directed upward, as to an adversary's chin.
- : Bridge. a play of a higher trump than necessary knowing it can be overtrumped by an opponent but that if overtrumped, one or more trump winners in the hand of one's partner will be established.
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up·per·cut, up·per·cut·ting.
- : to strike with an uppercut.
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up·per·cut, up·per·cut·ting.
- : to deliver an uppercut.
- : Bridge. to make an uppercut.
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Examples
A swooping uppercut just misses the chin of Jones, who continues to clinch to keep Tyson at bay.
In February, witnesses told Deadspin that Ray Rice threw an “uppercut” and struck her “like he [would punch] a guy.”
He feinted, and drove a vicious uppercut to the jaw of Dr. Friedrich von Stein.
Don Mathers gripped his hands together into a double fist and brought them upward in a vicious uppercut.
Ponta hurled himself upon him with terrific force, delivering an uppercut and a straight punch.
Then, in the breakaways, he began to uppercut Ponta on the stomach, or to hook his jaw or strike straight out upon the mouth.
For while they had been lost in the smother of dust, Taylor had landed a deadening uppercut on the big mans chin.