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parachute roll en · NOUN

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1. A rolling maneuver performed by a parachutist at the point of impact in order to distribute the physical shock and reduce the risk of injury.
   • The practice of this became an everyday ritual where, instead of press-ups for punishment if you goofed off, the offending student had to execute twenty parachute rolls. 2014, Phil Tomkins, Once A Soldier, page 19:

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