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Restraining technique
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armlock
Alternative clues for the word armlock
Word definitions for armlock in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An armlock in grappling is a single or double joint lock that hyperextends, hyperflexes or hyperrotates the elbow joint or shoulder joint . An armlock that hyperflexes or hyperrotates the shoulder joint is referred to as a shoulder lock , and an armlock ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A wrestling move in which the opponent's arm is held immobile 2 Any of several distinct attacks against an opponent’s arm in martial arts 3 (context figuratively by extension English) Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ One of the cops behind me on the stairs put an armlock on me.
Usage examples of armlock.
They got down on the ground and he applied the armlock, without pressure.
Maybe she had me in a metaphysical armlock, but that didn't mean I was going to jump every time she said "frog.
Jenna, who had not been the only girl in a family of six boys without learning a thing or two, had Boy 412 facedown on the deck in an armlock.
Boy 412 stared at them and moved away a little, remembering only too well Jenna's armlock of the night before.
Whether it was the calculated combination of guilt, fear and promise of reward with which the priests maintained their armlock on the population or the darker, underground mysteries of the old proscribed faiths, Phaid wanted as little contact as possible with any of it.
Garlic Breath got an armlock on Phaid and held the tip of the blade just behind his right ear.
Captain Aelock came out the front of the restaurant with the other assassin in an armlock.
Lancer and I got armlocks on both sides, and this time we dragged him loose.
He circled on tiptoe the grotesque debris and came near a doorway containing a crying soldier holding a saturated handkerchief to his mouth, supported as he sagged by two other soldiers waiting in grave impatience for the military ambulance that finally came clanging up with amber fog lights on and passed them by for an altercation on the next block between a civilian Italian with books and a slew of civilian policemen with armlocks and clubs.
Over the weeks, we were taught how to judo-throw would-be attackers, fend off knife attacks, escape from headlocks and armlocks, and disarm a gunman.
He was so heavy my armlocks and tricks did not faze him, and he was just about to pancake me when the phone rang and the bartender called Yurloko.