单词 | nunchuck |
释义 | nunchuckn. Martial Arts. = nunchaku n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > blunt weapons other than sticks > [noun] > flail or black-jack flailc1475 wapper1481 scorpion1541 threshel1688 swingle1818 life-preserver1833 black jack1848 slung-shot1848 neddy1851 slingshot1891 slogger1892 Jack1911 nunchaku1969 nunchuck1970 1970 Mattoon (Illinois) Jrnl. Gaz. 28 Feb. 3/2 Their weaponry consists of a motley collection of bats, two-handed flails [printed blails] called nunchucks and a varying mastery of karate. 1974 Black Belt Feb. 8 Police began complaining that nunchucks (colloquial) were contributing to violence in Los Angeles. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Nov. a34 He carries numchucks, a lethal weapon consisting of a chain suspended from two wooden handles. 1995 Handguns June 96/3 Go ahead and practice with nunchucks in a martial arts school. 2004 Impact Aug. 53/1 One quick change later and he is clad in a familiar yellow and black tracksuit and using a pair of nunchucks as his weapon of choice. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nunchuckv. transitive. To hit (a person or thing) with a nunchuck. Also (in extended use): to fell, defeat, browbeat. ΚΠ 1990 InfoWorld 24 Dec. 25/1 A set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle play-action figures and a box full of bad guys for them to numchuck, karate chop, and toss daggers at. 1991 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 2 Sept. iii. 21 The stern legions of Operation Rescue have been..nunchucked in California. 1994 B. Sterling Globalhead 266 Remind me to wrap some pad on those goddamned metal uprights. I feel like I've been nunchucked. 2003 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Apr. e2 The martial arts genre has been numchucked into submission in various titles on all the gaming consoles, with nothing exciting emerging lately. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1970v.1990 |
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