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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A jump in figure skating in which the skater takes off from the back outer edge of one skate and makes one full rotation before landing on the back outer edge of the other skate.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Alois Lutz, (1898–1918), Austrian figure skater.]

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