jujitsu

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Plant and animal breeding is essentially a kind of jujitsu, using the force of nature's inherent tendency against it, so to speak.

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  1. noun An art of weaponless self-defense developed in Japan that uses throws, holds, and blows and derives added power from the attacker's own weight and strength.

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  • We've added two more sessions—one on multimedia jujitsu, and a particularly interesting session on the Eyes-Free Android project—with even more yet to come.
  • Unfortunately, one of his choices knew a great deal about jujitsu, and got a hold on Too-Too. —  127 - Hell Below
  • The giant bronze man was a master of juju and several other forms of jujitsu, as well as the plain dockwalloper kind of fighting Quarters were too close for gun-play. —  084 - The Angry Ghost
  • He knew all the tricks of jujitsu, and some of his own. —  063 - The Motion Menace
  • He had never confessed to anyone, but he took regular lessons in rough and tumble, in jujitsu, and had even hired an osteopath doctor to teach him how to twist bones so as to hurt the most. —  123 - The Talking Devil
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  1. Japanese jūjitsu : jū, soft; see judo + jitsu, arts (from Middle Chinese zhwit).
 

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