Dictionary

arm-wrestle en · NOUN

Etymology

From arm + wrestle.

Meanings

1. A bout of arm wrestling.

Forms

arm-wrestle en · VERB

Etymology

From arm + wrestle.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To compete in an arm-wrestle (with).
2. (ambitransitive, broadly) To struggle (with) for dominance.
   • The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today. Even if the playing fields for the superpowers' arm-wrestling matches are no longer Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, but instead Kabul, Tehran and Peshawar. 2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62:
   • Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law 1996, Linda Ty-Casper, DreamEden, →ISBN, page 318:
   • In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize. 2014, Rocco Rubini, The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger, →ISBN:
   • I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further. 1999, Roz D. Fox, Welcome to My Family, →ISBN, page 151:

Forms

Deriveds

arm-wrestling · arm-wrestler

Synonyms

pull wrists

Translations (22)

id berpanco (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · it fare a braccio di ferro (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · pl siłować się (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · mi mamau ringa (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · de armdrücken (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · hu szkanderezik (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · pt disputar queda de braço (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · es echar unas fuercitas (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · hi पंजा लड़ाना (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · gl botar un pulso (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · gl pulsear (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · afb كاسر (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · es pulsear (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · yue 拗手瓜 (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · nl armworstelen (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · es echar un pulso (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · pl siłować na rękę (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · fi vääntää kättä (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · ja アームレスリングする (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · cmn 掰手腕 (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · pl siłować się na rękę (to compete in an arm-wrestle) · da lægge arm (to compete in an arm-wrestle)