Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In wrestling, a close grip, in which one of the contestants places a leg and hip in front of the other contestant, and attempts to push him over them to the ground.
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Examples
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They teach us to take the hip-lock of nature, and lead us cross-lots to success; they increase and elevate the pleasures of our vocation; a taste for them, is itself a blessing that sweetens our leisure hours, attracts us from temptations, and will gladden our old age.
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee
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With that I sheds my coat, gets Swifty's neck in the crook of my left elbow, swings him round for a side hip-lock, and bends his head forward.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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Jack Cockrell flew at him and they wrestled until a hip-lock threw the negro to the deck, where the colonel made him one pirate less.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898
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Stepping lightly aside, he caught his ready opponent as he passed, and, with one arm about his neck, gave him a specimen of the "hip-lock" which sent him in the air over his own shoulder.
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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