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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wrestler
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sumo
▪ A gracious Chiyonofuji noted that Takahanada, in his deep attachment to each bout, was totally different from other sumo wrestlers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A civil rights campaigner dressed as a wrestler in a cape?
▪ Brian Dixon's All-Star Wrestling stages 10 shows a week and has 150 full-time and 220 part-time wrestlers on its books.
▪ But the real enforcers seem to be the fans, for whom the masked wrestlers are a major focus of fantasy.
▪ Earnhardt ignored safeguards that could have slowed his performance, just like some wrestlers.
▪ Hall was competing against Yuriy Melnichenko, the same wrestler he defeated in the 1995 World Championships.
▪ Tallboy was confronted by a very tall man of considerable girth who looked like a retired all-in wrestler.
▪ Their fantasy helps when the kids start thinking the wrestlers are heroes and the wrestlers become something like real heroes.
▪ Yet one of the wrestlers is the all too human Jacob.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrestler

Wrestler \Wres"tler\, n. [AS. wr[=ae]stlere.] One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wrestler

late Old English, agent noun from wrestle (v.).

Wiktionary
wrestler

n. (context wrestling English) A person who wrestles.

WordNet
wrestler

n. combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground [syn: grappler, matman]

Usage examples of "wrestler".

For the Martial Open was the dream tournament: the one in which boxer met wrestler, karateka met judoka, and kung-fu sifu met aikido sensei, in fights to the finish.

Blast picked Dowling up and slammed him down on the dirt as if it were a professional wrestler with the strength of a demon.

A man in faultless white who looked more like a wrestler than a cook supervised, thundering condemnations as he inspected every crate.

Takao threw the wrestler to the mat with a uki goshi rising hip throw.

Then the car was through the works and winding up a narrow, tarmacked path with a lawn on either side, interspersed with small manicured trees and wrestlers, holy men and geisha girls, laquered and life-sized.

Dusk came as they waved Pilau back toward the C-47, their prized antique engine lurching against its lashings like a petrified sumo wrestler, Reventio swinging the cargo door wide in anticipation.

All around them tumblers tumbled, musicians tootled and squeaked, and troupes of players, jugglers, wrestlers, mountebanks, pickpockets, cutpurses, prostitutes, quacksalvers, thimbleriggers, blagueurs, and the like went energetically and often noisily about their work.

Usk, the Kipchak sambo wrestler, was not as large as his partner Whale, but at six-feet two-inches and 250 pounds of muscle he was no midget.

The smiter, panther springer, trapper sly, The deadly wrestler at the crucial bout, The penetrant, the tonant, tower of towers, Striking from black disaster starry showers.

But with the contestants so morphically different from one another, monitoring safety was a lot harder than it was between human wrestlers.

He shoved himself in front of the Neut and turned to face me, his hands raised and pointing toward me like a wrestler waiting to grapple.

She had been standing at her window, thinking with horror of the impending visit of a heavyweight wrestler called Selim Hammid Bey, who claimed to be in love with her, when she suddenly saw Lem Pitkin turn the corner and pass in front of the laundry.

He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a word-processing consultant, a private pilot, and a stay-at-home dad.

He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional and web designer, and a stay-at-home dad.

He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional designer, and a stay-at-home dad.