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sumo

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈsuːməʊ//

A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground.

noun

  1. 1

    A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground.

  2. 2

    A rikishi (sumo wrestler).

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 相(す)撲(もう) (sumō).

Forms

plural
sumos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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