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mud wrestling en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A form of entertainment in which people wrestle in mud.
   • There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual: 1998 Aug, Vibe, page 44:
   • and include everything from campouts to contests to select a leatherman or Ieatherboy to mudwrestling events. 2005, Scott Thumma, Edward R. Gray, Gay religion, page 343:
   • a superbly researched and fascinating foray into the netherworld of the daytime television mudwrestling arena. 1998, Joshua Gamson, Freaks talk back: tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity, page 302:
   • They were like mudwrestling, a spectator sport that had sprouted up during the seventies and eighties 1995, Anne Taylor Fleming, Anne Taylor Fleming, Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey, Snippet:
   • "I don't like female mudwrestling, It's stupid, it's embarrassing" 1986, High fidelity, Volume 36, Issues 1-6; Volume 36, Issues 1-6
   • There is also the story of the brave young man who makes his living mudwrestling with anacondas. 1994, John Coborn, John Coborn, The mini-atlas of snakes of the world, Snippet:
2. (figuratively, uncountable) A dirty and disreputable dispute.
   • Voting isn't seen as a civic duty when politicians aren't civil. Think about the country's love affair with the presidency during JFK's Camelot era, and contrast that to the mud wrestling of today. For many, either the love affair is over, or the spark never even sparked. 2004, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, The F-word: feminism in jeopardy: women, politics, and the future, page 237:
   • When will we stop the political mud wrestling and begin to wrestle with the most potentially destructive force ever to challenge this Nation? 2002 November 15–December 16, Congressional Record, volume 148, Part 17, page 23051:
   • We know our school system is beset by mayhem and indifference. We know all about the petty, niece-nephew-and-cousin-hiring satraps who populate the local school boards. And we know about the political mud-wrestling matches over too many millions of dollars and thousands of bureaucrats to imagine. 1996 February 26, Michael Tomasky, “Kids Say the Darnedest Things”, in New York Magazine:

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Relateds

mud wrestler · mudwrestler

Translations (11)

yue 泥漿摔角 /泥浆摔角 (dispute) · yue 泥漿摔角 /泥浆摔角 (form of entertainment) · cmn 泥漿摔跤 /泥浆摔跤 (form of entertainment) · ja 泥レス (form of entertainment) · es lucha en barro (form of entertainment) · cmn 泥漿摔角 /泥浆摔角 (form of entertainment) · es lucha en lodo (form of entertainment) · sv gyttjebrottning (form of entertainment) · fr lutte dans la boue (form of entertainment) · fi mutapaini (form of entertainment) · es lucha en fango (form of entertainment)