scissor grip
- noun
- Jargon
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agarre de tijera
- The wrestler used a powerful scissor grip to immobilize his opponent.
Examples
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Applying a scissor grip around the waist can quickly exhaust the other fighter.
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He managed to escape the scissor grip just in time to avoid defeat.
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He applied a strong scissor grip during the match.
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Did she use a scissor grip to win?
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The wrestler applied a tight scissor grip around his opponent's torso to gain a strategic advantage.
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She learned how to execute a scissor grip effectively in her wrestling class to control her opponents.
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Using a scissor grip, he was able to restrict his opponent's movements and secure the victory.
Synonyms
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7.9
A wrestling hold where the legs wrap around another person and squeeze
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7.8
A position where someone wraps their legs around an opponent's body or head and presses their feet together to squeeze
A wrestler wraps their legs around someone's body or head and squeezes them with the feet
A hold that wraps the legs around an opponent's body or head and squeezes with the feet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'scissor' evokes a scissor-like squeezing or crossing action and 'grip' denotes a hold, so the overall meaning — a hold that squeezes like scissors — is directly inferable from the parts. This descriptive, imageable relation follows ordinary English compounding and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The wrestling term scissor grip comes from the image of a wrestler wrapping their legs like closed scissors around the other person and holding them with a tight grip. So, it means 'a hold that squeezes and stops the other person from moving'.