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- verb Present participle of
uppercut .
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Examples
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Bill Cosby's "A Different World" was the phantom right cross to complement Spike Lee's uppercutting "School Daze;" a warmer, friendlier, weekly edition of black college life to offset Lee's gritty depiction of HBCU life.
Jarrett L. Carter: 'A Different World' Minimizes a Different Age for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Bill Cosby's "A Different World" was the phantom right cross to complement Spike Lee's uppercutting "School Daze;" a warmer, friendlier, weekly edition of black college life to offset Lee's gritty depiction of HBCU life.
Jarrett L. Carter: 'A Different World' Minimizes a Different Age for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Bill Cosby's "A Different World" was the phantom right cross to complement Spike Lee's uppercutting "School Daze;" a warmer, friendlier, weekly edition of black college life to offset Lee's gritty depiction of HBCU life.
Jarrett L. Carter: 'A Different World' Minimizes a Different Age for HBCUs Jarrett L. Carter 2011
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Damon added a first-pitch homer off Vazquez in the fourth inning, this time uppercutting a towering drive that gave the Sox an 8-1 lead when it settled into the seats in the upper deck in right field.
USATODAY.com - Damon, Lowe make most of chance for redemption 2004
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(UNKNOWN): They jabbing me, hooking me, uppercutting with lefts and rights.
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When doing a special move, or simply uppercutting (which is easier with the joystick pulled directly down), always pull back while you are recovering, and from that back to down and away when you are can block once more.
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The key is to wait until you have already turned to the correct direction before uppercutting.
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If you freeze an unsuspecting opponent, you can often throw them instead of uppercutting them (most opponents don't bother pulling back when they are frozen).
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Feinting with his left he took a half-step backward, at the same time uppercutting with the whole strength of his right.
A Piece of Steak 1909
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Meanwhile, Ryan was about a month-and-a-half from retirement and went out by uppercutting some fist-sized punctuation onto a Hall-of-Fame career.
Pounding The Rock LatinD 2010
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