Meaning

2 senses
  1. A swinging blow aimed upwards at the opponent's chin.

    Uppercut, Aufwärtshaken

    апперко́тapperkót

    a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin)

  2. A cut shot that sends the ball over the wicket-keeper's head.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
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Deutsch
By meaning 1
in boxing:

Origin

From upper + cut.

From upper + cut.

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Forms

plural: uppercuts
Singularuppercut
Pluraluppercuts

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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