Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Sports Executed with the arm raised above the shoulder; overhand: an overarm throw.
- adj. Sports Of, relating to, or being a stroke in swimming that is begun with the arm lifted and stretched forward over the shoulder.
- transitive v. To supply (a nation, for example) with an excess of weaponry, especially nuclear missiles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Throwing while having the hand above the elbow
- adv. Having the hand above the arm at the time of throwing
Etymologies
Examples
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I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer.
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Samuel immediately reached for a stone that was roughly the size of a cricket ball, took a breath, and threw it overarm at the boxes of bottles.
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A pitcher (known as the bowler), surrounded by fielders, throws a leather ball in an overarm action onto the ground toward a batter (batsman).
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Yokozuna Hakuho nailed ozeki Kotooshu with a huge left-hand overarm throw to close out the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a perfect 15-0 record on Sunday.
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I tossed the pager overarm out in front of the car.
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“You will have more success if you throw overarm,” a voice said from directly behind her.
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So had teaching her how to throw a ball overarm, especially cozying up behind her to demonstrate the correct motion of the arm with her.
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Viola watched him lope up to the near wickets, throw the ball in one fluid overarm motion, and shatter the far wickets every time.
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It smoothed out the waterfalls and the chutes, so that instead of dropping down them and plummeting below the surface of the pool beneath he slid down them with a smooth rush, holding his position in the face of the wave with a few quick overarm strokes or a kick of the legs.
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With the end of the rope held between his teeth he swam the last short distance with a furious overarm crawl, just beating the current's attempt to sweep him away downstream.
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