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kimura

nounattested in dialogue

An armlock where the implementer isolates the opponent's arm and torques the shoulder in order to cause pain or injury.

noun

  1. 1

    An armlock where the implementer isolates the opponent's arm and torques the shoulder in order to cause pain or injury.

Etymology

Named after Masahiko Kimura, who used it to defeat Hélio Gracie in a famous fight in 1951.

Forms

plural
kimuras
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).