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armlocks

armlocks is the plural of armlock.

armlocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of armlock.

Meaning of armlock

Noun

armlock (plural armlocks)

  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. A fighting hold in which the arm is used to immobilise an opponent.
    • It would keep the bone-cage of his body safe:
      no enemy's clasp would crush him in it,
      no vicious armlock choke his life out.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 47
  4. (broadly, figuratively) Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
    • Mr Chávez remains a formidable opponent. […] He has an armlock on the country’s institutions.2012 September 29, “Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2020

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Questions about armlocks

What is armlocks the plural of?
Armlocks is the plural of armlock.

Words near armlocks in the dictionary

  1. armload
  2. armloads
  3. armlock
  4. armlocked
  5. armlocking
  6. armlocks
  7. armlong
  8. ARMM
  9. armo
  10. armodafinil
  11. armography

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