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Definition of punchbag in English: punchbagnoun ˈpʌn(t)ʃbaɡˈpən(t)ʃbæɡ British 1A stuffed cylindrical bag suspended so it can be punched for exercise or training, especially by boxers. North American term punching bag Example sentencesExamples - The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
- When he was answered in the affirmative, he immediately became impressed as he danced around the ring and whamming suspended punchbags with that famous right hand.
- He was giving a martial arts demonstration, beating up a punchbag, and was more interested in watching the women watching him than in taking care over what he was doing.
- Maybe when you punch a punchbag you are simply releasing more endorphins that improve your mood.
- Hatton now stands beside Macklin, who is working on the punchbag, talking to him about technique.
- The boxer's punchbag is still swinging on its chain when I enter, and here's something else that's disconcerting: an entire wall stacked floor to ceiling with files.
- The South African decided to withdraw because of a wrist injury he picked up after hitting a punchbag in the garage of his Wentworth home earlier this month.
- Instead she works hard for about an hour and a half twice a week knocking seven bells out of punchbags, completing gruelling gym circuits and sparring with men, usually six-footers who tower over her in the ring.
- But he had a blue bed, a red punchbag, a Jackass poster, a green alarm clock, a wooden wardrobe, and a writing desk.
- Cade's fists made hard contact with the punchbag.
- They stock every conceivable type of ball, as well as darts, boxing gloves, punchbags, headguards, snooker cues, goggles, running spikes and karate suits.
- ‘The club have got me doing a lot of weights and I've been boxing with the punchbag to give myself more body strength,’ says Luke, whose display at Sunderland last Saturday was highly praised by Fergie.
- When the Daily Dispatch visited the Welsh camp, Qhushu was busy pounding a punchbag preparing for a fight in Johannesburg whose details are yet to be finalised.
- Working with leather is a favourite of his, and he's made things like punchbags for boxing clubs.
- I do some aerobics stuff and use the punchbag for some boxing training.
- I'm up at eight and in the gym, and back in the ring sparring and on the punchbags in the afternoon.
- He no longer pummels the light punchbag that has travelled with him from home to home over the years, and these days he occasionally uses a cane to assist his progress.
- Others cultivated a swagger or bragged about the punchbag they had at home, bought by mum after constant pressure, most likely from Moore's Catalogue.
- She explains how she drew a cross on a punchbag at the exact height of Ward's chin and trained to hit it.
- The turning process will comprise exhibition contests between boxers of the same weight, shadow boxing, working on a punchbag and rope-skipping.
- 1.1 A person on whom another person vents their anger.
all I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury Example sentencesExamples - Pendle desperately needs an MP who will work closely with the council on behalf of local people, instead of trying to use the council as a political punchbag.
- Both Graham and Ben are used as punchbags in his comedy set.
- Apple became a ritual hate figure on the internet and a punchbag for comedians.
- He's a good policeman but a terrible human being - using his wife as an emotional punchbag.
- Fed up with being a critical punchbag, he retreated, first to Ireland and then to a bungalow in Cornwall, together with his wife, dogs and library of over 30,000 books.
- That was always the unfortunate lot of the bottom-of-the-bill punchbags and dinner-club fighters - someone had to die to get famous.
- But Hatton said: ‘Junior's last few opponents have been punchbags with arms - their standard has been terrible.’
- He may have played the role of diplomatic punchbag in the Arab world, but on the other side of the Atlantic his stock is rising.
- Jussi Jaaskelainen has no intention of being a punchbag for the Premiership's big-hitters.
- The prime minister's wife is a favourite punchbag of Wheen's, and it isn't hard to see why.
- But then I've always used Rebus in this wanton way, as a punchbag of sorts.
- Gavin Clinch - the man who makes Salford tick - became a punchbag for the Centurions, who had Phil Kendrick sent off at the death for a second needless, reckless challenge on the Reds play-maker.
- He also showed he could still take a punch, and he needed to for eight rounds as Lewis' size and skill advantage reduced him to a walking punchbag.
- And who could begrudge the big fella the easy life after all those years being used as a punchbag for some of the baddest men on the planet?
- For the first eight rounds it was close, but thereafter LaMotta became a virtual punchbag.
- She swings with total conviction from her descriptions of disco dancing, being beaten, being drunk, being raped, being happy and laughing, to being a mother, a victim, a lover and a punchbag.
- We all remember Knightmare - sword and sorcery adventure gameshow for playground punchbags.
- When he wasn't being banged to the ground, Bergman was falling over himself as Hare treated him like a personal punchbag.
- Ariel Sharon has become the punchbag of the anti-war movement - the easy target ‘mass murderer’ who everybody loves to hate.
- One man who didn't seem all that relaxed was Health Minister Micheal Martin who, after a mere three years serving as the cabinet punchbag, looks a little frayed around the edges.
Definition of punchbag in US English: punchbagnounˈpən(t)SHbaɡˈpən(t)ʃbæɡ British A stuffed cylindrical bag suspended so it can be punched for exercise or training, especially by boxers; a punching bag. Example sentencesExamples - They stock every conceivable type of ball, as well as darts, boxing gloves, punchbags, headguards, snooker cues, goggles, running spikes and karate suits.
- I'm up at eight and in the gym, and back in the ring sparring and on the punchbags in the afternoon.
- I do some aerobics stuff and use the punchbag for some boxing training.
- Instead she works hard for about an hour and a half twice a week knocking seven bells out of punchbags, completing gruelling gym circuits and sparring with men, usually six-footers who tower over her in the ring.
- He no longer pummels the light punchbag that has travelled with him from home to home over the years, and these days he occasionally uses a cane to assist his progress.
- Cade's fists made hard contact with the punchbag.
- The boxer's punchbag is still swinging on its chain when I enter, and here's something else that's disconcerting: an entire wall stacked floor to ceiling with files.
- She explains how she drew a cross on a punchbag at the exact height of Ward's chin and trained to hit it.
- The turning process will comprise exhibition contests between boxers of the same weight, shadow boxing, working on a punchbag and rope-skipping.
- The South African decided to withdraw because of a wrist injury he picked up after hitting a punchbag in the garage of his Wentworth home earlier this month.
- He was giving a martial arts demonstration, beating up a punchbag, and was more interested in watching the women watching him than in taking care over what he was doing.
- But he had a blue bed, a red punchbag, a Jackass poster, a green alarm clock, a wooden wardrobe, and a writing desk.
- Maybe when you punch a punchbag you are simply releasing more endorphins that improve your mood.
- When the Daily Dispatch visited the Welsh camp, Qhushu was busy pounding a punchbag preparing for a fight in Johannesburg whose details are yet to be finalised.
- Working with leather is a favourite of his, and he's made things like punchbags for boxing clubs.
- ‘The club have got me doing a lot of weights and I've been boxing with the punchbag to give myself more body strength,’ says Luke, whose display at Sunderland last Saturday was highly praised by Fergie.
- The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
- Hatton now stands beside Macklin, who is working on the punchbag, talking to him about technique.
- When he was answered in the affirmative, he immediately became impressed as he danced around the ring and whamming suspended punchbags with that famous right hand.
- Others cultivated a swagger or bragged about the punchbag they had at home, bought by mum after constant pressure, most likely from Moore's Catalogue.
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