Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1967, from Korean, said to represent tae "kick" + kwon "fist" + do "art, way, method."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of taekwondo English)
WordNet
n. a Korean martial art similar to karate
Usage examples of "tae kwon do".
My whole family was dedicated to protecting the king, and we passed the skill of Tae Kwon Do from one generation to the next among ourselves.
He was a master of Tae Kwon Do, able to drink hard all night without losing his edge or suffering a hangover, a chess master who had once defeated Bobby Fisher when they encountered each other in a hurricane-hammered resort hotel in Barbados, a lover of such prowess that a beautiful blond socialite had killed another woman over him in a fit of jealousy, a collector of vintage Corvettes who was able to rebuild them from the ground up, and a brooding philosopher who knew that humanity was doomed but who gamely fought the .
He was a master of Tae Kwon Do, able to drink hard all night without losing his edge or suffering a hangover, a chess master who had once defeated Bobby Fisher when they encountered each other in a hurricane-hammered resort hotel in Barbados, a lover of such prowess that a beautiful blond socialite had killed another woman over him in a fit of jealousy, a collector of vintage Corvettes who was able to rebuild them from the ground up, and a brooding philosopher who knew that humanity was doomed but who gamely fought the good fight anyway .
He was a master of Tae Kwon Do, able to drink hard all night without losing his edge or suffering a hangover, a chess master who had once defeated Bobby Fisher when they encountered each other in a hurricane-hammered resort hotel in Barbados, a lover of such prowess that a beautiful blond socialite had killed another woman over him in a fit of jealousy, a collector of vintage Corvettes who was able to rebuild them from the ground up, and a brooding philosopher who knew that humanity was doomed but who gamely fought the good .
I sideslipped and hit him twice in the face and once in the neck and drove a straight kick from the tae kwon do into his solar plexus.
You might even get him on assault with a deadly-I don't know how they view martial arts in this state, and he's had more than a bit of Tae Kwon Do.
You might even get him on assault with a deadlyI don't know how they view martial arts in this state, and he's had more than a bit of Tae Kwon Do.