WordNet
n. a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze [syn: scissors, scissor grip, scissors grip]
Usage examples of "scissors hold".
He was busy swinging his legs around Eric's back, locking his ankles in a scissors hold.
Endless chocolate legs clamped in a scissors hold around his waist and restrained him from climbing her lovely frame any farther.
The homunculus had his legs pinned in some sort of a scissors hold, his face braced into the floor and both of his arms twisted behind his back.
But the foe doubled up, wrapped legs around Herb, and trapped his arms in a scissors hold.
I then climbed atop of him and set to work punching him into a pulp, but he come to hisself under my very fists, as it were, pitched me off and got a scissors hold that nearly caved my ribs in.
However, they ignored his legs so he kicked up, grabbing the alien in the center with a scissors hold.
He raised his own knees and caught Evans in an iron scissors hold just below the hips.