单词 | lucha libre |
释义 | lucha libren. Originally and chiefly U.S. A form of professional wrestling originating in Mexico, in which competitors wear distinctive form-fitting masks and use acrobatic techniques. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > types of wrestling catch as catch cana1393 in-play1713 Cumberland and Westmorland (style, etc.)1823 Cornish wrestling1824 arm-wrestling1846 professional wrestling1884 sumo1893 all in1934 mud-wrestling1936 lucha libre1943 wrist-wrestling1973 1943 Atlanta Constit. 28 Oct. 22/1 Dandy ‘Gardenia’ Davis..‘is the biggest drawing card that Mexico's Lucha Libre had ever had’. 1953 Hope (Arkansas) Star 15 July 5/2 The business of lucha libre, just plain wrestling to you, is very good in Mexico. 1985 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 4 June One particularly vociferous fan said of lucha libre, ‘I like it. It's entertainment for the whole family: part clowning, part wrestling, part theater.’ 1998 S. Mazer Professional Wrestling iii. 59 On Saturday several ‘Mexican Wrestlers’ often join the workout, practicing and sharing with the others the more acrobatic, complexly and explicitly choreographed art of Lucha Libre. 2006 Wired Dec. 270/1 He dons a pair of black rubber bat wings, a set of plastic fangs, and a silver lucha libre mask. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1943 |
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