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- verb Present participle of
clothesline .
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Examples
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The barbarian caught up with him legitimately and was stabbing him with his boarding pike (after a pretty bad string of misses he finally was connecting); the cleric used an Infamy Point to find a shortcut to head him off and gave him a good clotheslining; at that point we dropped out of chase mode and the two PCs cut him down before he could maneuver away from them.
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The second half got testy, with numerous hard fouls and arguments highlighted by Ron Artest clotheslining New York's Amare Stoudemire on a drive to the hoop, earning a flagrant foul.
Lakes With Fouth Straight AP 2011
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Artest then delivered a hard foul on Stoudemire late in the third quarter, clotheslining the Knicks' star big man – who got up angry before teammates separated them.
Lakes With Fouth Straight AP 2011
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But in Game 4, Kevin McHale helped turn the tide, clotheslining a streaking Kurt Rambis on a fastbreak.
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I include undercutting and clotheslining under “hard.”
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He distinguished himself by clotheslining the brawniest squab on the steamer as the fellow stepped over his sea bag.
THE PREVIOUS ADVENTURES OF POPEYE THE SAILOR Jim Ruland 2009
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He distinguished himself by clotheslining the brawniest squab on the steamer as the fellow stepped over his sea bag.
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I'm not going to lie, I had a misspent youth, most of my teens and half of my twenties were spent throatchopping and clotheslining unsavory individuals in drunken bar brawls.
Is Bogus Michelle Obama Rumor Based On A Work Of Fiction? 2009
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This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers").
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Terry, who was ejected from Monday's game against Golden State after getting a flagrant foul for clotheslining Monta Ellis, helped Dallas open a 30-17 lead late in the opening quarter.
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