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no-sell

no-sell verb: to act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect.

Verb

no-sell (third-person singular simple present no-sells, present participle no-selling, simple past and past participle no-sold)

  1. (transitive, combat sports) To act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect.
    • Powell was doing his best to no-sell a previous exchange. And he was right — Reyes' strikes didn't hurt him or really hit him.2017 June 2, MMA Fighting Newswire, “Fighter shakes head saying a strike didn't hurt — then gets KO'd by head kick”, in MMA Fighting
  2. (transitive) To shrug off; to withstand without significant reaction or injury.
    • So the bulges would give them a huge amount more buoyancy, which would allow them to navigate narrower channels; the guns would need to be modified so that they could fire at a higher angle, which'd give them better shore-bombardment capability; but, as I say, the decks - and we're not talking...2022 September 11, Drachinifel, 56:53 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 213 (Part 1), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2022

Forms of no-sell

third-person singular presentno-sells
present participleno-selling
past participleno-sold
pastno-sold

Questions about no-sell

What does no-sell mean?
No-sell means to act as if an attack from an opponent had no effect.
What part of speech is no-sell?
No-sell is a verb.
What is the past tense of no-sell?
The past tense of no-sell is no-sold.

Words near no-sell in the dictionary

  1. no-score draw
  2. no-score draws
  3. no-see-um
  4. no-see-ums
  5. no-self
  6. no-sell
  7. no-selling
  8. no-sells
  9. no-sew
  10. no-show
  11. no-show sock

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