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back kick
noun as in scissors kick
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Jones dropped fellow American Miocic with a thudding spinning back kick in the third round at New York's Madison Square Garden to make the first defence of his belt.
With Miocic backed up against the cage, Jones unleashed a crushing spinning back kick to the body which dropped the challenger, before the referee stepped in to end the contest.
Following a close opening few minutes where the pair traded leg kicks and rapid punch combinations, Manchester's Loughnane took control with a spinning back kick to the body which hurt Kamaka.
Shevchenko had made good use of her kicks, as she so often does, to keep Grasso off her, but a poorly judged attempt at a spinning back kick would spell the beginning of the end of her reign as champion.
Grasso, however, got Shevchenko to the mat late in the fourth when the now former champ went for a back kick.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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