rabbit punch

rabbit punch
noun Date: 1915 a short chopping blow delivered to the back of the neck or the base of the skull • rabbit-punch transitive verb

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  • Rabbit Punch — is a 1948 Warner Bros. cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny.Bugs finds himself in a boxing match with a brutish and not very bright boxer. The title is a play on an actually illegal boxing move, [Sugar, Bert.… …   Wikipedia

  • Rabbit Punch — est un cartoon réalisé par Chuck Jones sorti en 1948, mettant en scène Bugs Bunny et Crusher le boxeur. Synopsis Crusher, le champion, n arrête pas de vaincre ses adversaires. Insulté par Bugs, il le défie. Le boxeur fait une impressionnante… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • rabbit punch — n BrE a quick hit on the back of the neck, done with the side of your hand …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • rabbit punch — rabbit ,punch noun count a short hard hit to the back of someone s neck with the side of your hand …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • rabbit punch — ► NOUN ▪ a sharp chop with the edge of the hand to the back of the neck …   English terms dictionary

  • rabbit punch — n. Boxing a short, sharp blow to the back of the neck …   English World dictionary

  • Rabbit punch — A rabbit punch is a punch to the neck or to the base of the skull. It is considered dangerous because it can damage the cervical vertebrae and subsequently the spinal cord, which may lead to serious spinal cord injury or even death. For this… …   Wikipedia

  • Rabbit-Punch — Rab|bit Punch [ ræbɪtpʌntʃ], der; [s], s [engl. rabbit punch, eigtl. = Hasenschlag, aus: rabbit = Hase u. punch = Schlag] (Boxen): [unerlaubter] kurz angesetzter Schlag ins Genick od. an den Hinterkopf …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Rabbit-Punch — Rab|bit Punch [ ræbitpʌntʃ] der; s, s <aus gleichbed. engl. rabbit punch zu rabbit »Kaninchen« u. punch »Schlag«> [unerlaubter] kurz angesetzter Schlag ins Genick od. an den Hinterkopf (Boxsport) …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • rabbit punch — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms rabbit punch : singular rabbit punch plural rabbit punches a short hard hit to the back of someone s neck with the side of your hand …   English dictionary

  • rabbit punch — n. a quick little punch. (Boxing and general slang.) □ That couldn’t have hurt you! It was just a little rabbit punch. □ She battered him with about forty rabbit punches on the arm. Boy, is he ever sore! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

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