Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A domestic cat of a large docile breed developed in the United States, having blue eyes, a long coat that is often light-colored with dark markings, and a tendency to go limp like a rag doll when picked up.
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- noun A modern
American breed ofdomestic cat thatrelaxes completely when picked up. - noun computer graphics, video games A
model consisting of a set of connectedrigid bodies that cancollapse in a loose, natural manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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No feeding frenzy or thrashing water but the shark makes a slight turn with the guy's leg in its jaws and whips him around like a ragdoll, which is how almost everyone who has survived a shark attack or wtinessed one, describes how the shark flipped the person about the water.
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• Fully interactive game world with life-like physics, including "ragdoll" enemies and more physics objects than you can count!
2BakSa.Net 2010
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There's a bit of excitement when they shuffle into traffic, ragdoll physics in action.
Zombies Calling Thomas Pluck 2011
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Molly dangled from Bob's beefy arm like a ragdoll.
Sunny Gessy Alvarez 2012
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| Reply titan quest looked similar, and the physics ARE fun, ragdoll was one of the developments in game culture that really got me. just wished the graphics were a bit darker. slightly too cartoony for me.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some things we know and don’t know about DIII 2008
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Somehow our officials have a problem with ragdoll and this here is Ragdoll to the max.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Force Unleashed: Looking really great 2008
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Deep Blue Sea (1999), which featured scheming, highly intelligent, genetically modified sharks, was fun but stupid, one of those films – like Jaws: The Revenge – where the producers could only afford to pay the star for about 14 hours 'work, so Samuel L Jackson, or the ragdoll playing him in the hilarious scene where he gets eaten, checks out early.
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They watched daddy leave the ground, soaring about ten feet, his legs whirling on his invisible bicycle until he (me) hit the ground, rolling like a ragdoll.
Winter is Coming...no, wait, it's here. wendigomountain 2008
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When Andy tried to interfere, Teresa throw him off of her like a ragdoll and then tried to chase Danielle off stage.
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Players must fire ragdoll characters out of a cannon to hit a red star, getting the trajectory and speed just right and avoiding obstacles.
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