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- noun Plural form of
grappler .
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Examples
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The Casino appearance kicked off what promises to be a world-wide tour for Hogan and his band of "grapplers".
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They rush in from the unlit corners, crabbing sideways with I-phones extended, trapping silicon sluts in their grapplers and fighting over the scraps until every shred of flesh is tagged and mapped.
Mr. Sunrise Brett Rosenblatt 2011
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And of all the people in the town being victimized by vampires, witches and other bad things attracted to the hell hole in the ground, the big red guy with the large stone right hand befriends the masked grapplers — who, if anybody has read Hellboy comics for any length of time, knows they're exactly his kind of people.
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They rush in from the unlit corners, crabbing sideways with I-phones extended, trapping silicon sluts in their grapplers and fighting over the scraps until every shred of flesh is tagged and mapped.
Mr. Sunrise Brett Rosenblatt 2011
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Of course, the conventional wisdom didn't apply when Penn fought Sean Sherk and both grapplers elected to box each other for three rounds.
Archive 2009-01-25 Tyler 2009
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Of course, the conventional wisdom didn't apply when Penn fought Sean Sherk and both grapplers elected to box each other for three rounds.
UFC 94 Tyler 2009
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Would the Silva of 2006 really have taken five rounds and 25 minutes to defeat the likes of Maia and Leites, two pure grapplers with a clear aversion to any potential fisticuffs?
Elliot Worsell: Anderson Silva -- Bored or on Borrowed Time? Elliot Worsell 2011
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They accept grapplers as young as four years of age, and they don't turn anyone away.
Wrestling, Sport for Our Times James Freeman 2011
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Would the Silva of 2006 really have taken five rounds and 25 minutes to defeat the likes of Maia and Leites, two pure grapplers with a clear aversion to any potential fisticuffs?
Elliot Worsell: Anderson Silva -- Bored or on Borrowed Time? Elliot Worsell 2011
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Unable to call on the same collegiate wrestling background enjoyed by their American peers, British mixed martial artists have often run into trouble when pitted against superior grapplers.
Elliot Worsell: Britain's Third Wave of Mixed Martial Artists Elliot Worsell 2010
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