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drop the gloves

Definitions

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  • verb ice hockey, idiomatic To fight.
  • verb idiomatic, by extension To remove a prior impediment to action; to prepare for or engage in a dispute.

Etymologies

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From the practice of ice hockey players of removing their heavy gloves before striking blows in fistfights

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