Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several wrestling holds in which the user places an arm under the opponent's upper arm or armpit and presses the wrist or the palm of the hand against the back of the opponent's neck.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Perhaps from the name Nelson. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Click to read. ben nelson is down 20% in the polls.”
“(link) did you think any thing different. it was a democrate game. nelson is part of the problem. the evil democrates are pushing the republicans around, they must stand up for us no one else is. the democrate are trying to take our freedom.”
Nelson prolife amendment tabled: Nelson (D, NE) caving to follow. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Jun 6th, 2005 at 2: 17 pm true. although covesville, where the incident occured, isn’t in nelson co. it’s in albemarle. that’s 2.”
Camblos Refuses to Charge in Covesville Attack at cvillenews.com
“i was at target last weekend and we decided to get the huge sunflower mirror (kind of nelson-clock like) for the wall behind our dining table. our dining table is big … so that wall was calling for something grand. i wanted almost everything from that design event though. gotta love target!”
“But so bored I finally decided to try and find out what a nelson means.”
“Either that or they know damn well, and just do the nelson telescope trick – I see no ships etc.”
“Wow, nelson actually wanted to read it b4 he voted yes. showing any kind of substance or integrity is political suicide these days. guess he has sumthng 98% of senators dont - a conscience. the actions and hate speech frm both parties helps drive record #s of people to become independents. politicians work to represent indpendnts, whereas dems and repubs work for their politicians”
“Thus, reforms that lean on “market-based” tactics are doomed to failure, and the full-nelson that the insurance industry has on Congress will assure that any pain they feel is minimal.”
“So … what did nelson accomplish w/that bit of theater?”
Think Progress » New poll finds more Americans in favor of eliminating the filibuster.
“- HIV prevention: arguably bad for pharmaceutical firms (my guess is that whatever they would gain is dwarfed by what they gain by selling HIV treatment) - Wildfire management: mostly government jobs, nothing for Big Business here collins and nelson (who control the outcome of the bill, let us not forget) are not lobbyists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nelson’.
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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Counties in Virginia
There are only 95 counties, but this list also includes independent cities. Some have the same name (e.g. Bedford), so tags on each word say whether a Virginia county, Virginia city, or both.
lee, scott, wise, dickenson, buchanan, russell, washington, tazewell, smyth, bland, wythe, grayson and 118 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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Sportie: Cricket
Wordieworthy jargon from the impenetrable world of cricket.
wicket, on, off, pitch, howzat, stumps, bail, willow, inswinger, outswinger, seamer, duck and 132 more...
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Aminals
My pets' names and nicknames past and present
squiggy, squitler, squigaboo, tai quob kabob, booger, boogie, bogart, furguson, furgie, two berets, walter snarfer, gizmo and 75 more...
Tweets
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bilby Cricket jargon - in England, 111. This number is considered unlucky, likewise 222 (double nelson), 333 (triple nelson) and so on. Dec 9, 2007