haymaker

• Ducking under a haymaker, he lunged upward, headbutting Maggert full in the face, lifting the big man off his feet, kicking his legs out from under him as he fell. —  EQMM, June 2005
• This was an intentional design decision to ensure that the focus on the haymaker is not so pronounced in the new game - this is beneficial because more emphasis has been placed on the actual boxing, rather than pulling off mega moves to reduce your opponent to a stumbling shell of his former self. —  OCTools
• The "almighty" force of what most witnesses described as an open-handed slap - one spoke of a "haymaker" - hurled him off his feet. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
• If you go to land an uppercut and we land a haymaker, it's hard because you've got to decide, 'Are we going to stop doing it or are we going to do what we do?'
• This was a magnificent game, featuring pace, skill, power, eight tries, some weak defending and high emotions, but still the main talking point afterwards was the red card that White was shown in only the 23rd minute for the haymaker he landed on the chin of Andrew Sheridan. —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk

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