clotheslining

Verb

clothesline (third-person singular simple present clotheslines, present participle clotheslining, simple past and past participle clotheslined)

1. (Australia, Canada, US, informal, transitive) To knock (a person) over by striking them across the neck or upper body with an outstretched arm, mimicking the motion of running into a low clothesline.
   • The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.

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