professional wrestling
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- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃənl ˈrɛslɪŋ/
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lucha libre profesional
- Many fans consider professional wrestling to be as much about entertainment as it is about athleticism.
- professional wrestling match
- professional wrestling ring
- professional wrestling history
You know, if you think of professional wrestling, you know, the heel and the babyface.
- You know, if you think of professional wrestling, you know, the heel and the babyface.
- This reminds me of professional wrestling, and I'll tell you why.
- There's, it's just like professional wrestling.
Examples
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So this is like in professional wrestling when the drama isn't taking place in the ring but outside it.
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What could professional wrestling and school literacy practices possibly have in common?
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The same quality of entertainment as professional wrestling.
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In addition, we are not affiliated with any independent professional wrestling organization.
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This reminds me of professional wrestling, and I'll tell you why.
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If you think you can be a nice guy and a successful promoter in professional wrestling, you better get out of this business right now.
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Professional wrestling has a pretty simple plot with painfully few variations.
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In my 20 years in professional wrestling, I've never witnessed such brutality.
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In the awe-inspiring world of professional wrestling, the wrestling business thrives on having the desire to succeed.
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Lucha libre is not like American professional wrestling, with its soap opera dynamics, vocal grudge matches, and elaborate storylines.
Blog text (20)
How Staged
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Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'professional' and 'wrestling' will readily infer this refers to wrestling performed by professionals (i.e., paid/organized wrestling), so the core meaning is compositional. However, the conventional nuances in English — that professional wrestling is entertainment, theatrical, and often has predetermined outcomes — are not predictable from the constituent words alone, so full interpretation requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Professional wrestling comes from old shows where wrestlers were paid performers who mixed real moves with staged parts to tell a story. Because the people running the shows often set match endings and moves in advance, professional wrestling means a paid entertainment form of wrestling with results that are often 'planned'.