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  1. arm-wrestlenoun

    A physical sport or game in which two contestants each rest an arm on a single surface by the elbow only and push on each other's locked hands, until the loser is unable to keep his arm up anywhere in the air as the winner forces it down on the surface.

  2. arm-wrestleverb

    to compete in an arm-wrestle.

  3. Etymology: arm + wrestle

Wikipedia

  1. arm-wrestle

    Arm wrestling (also spelled armwrestling) is a sport with two opponents who face each other with their bent elbows placed on a table and hands firmly gripped, who then attempt to force the opponent's hand down to the table top ("pin" them). The sport is often casually used to demonstrate the stronger person between two or more people. In the early years other names were used to describe the same sport, including arm turning, arm twisting, twisting wrists, wrist turning and wrist wrestling.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arm-wrestle in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arm-wrestle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of arm-wrestle in a Sentence

  1. Ed Husic:

    The bottom line is we've got an arm wrestle going on here and the longer it goes on, the longer the customers have to stand by at the edges...waiting for some sort of resolution.


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