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tomahawks

noun

Meaning

  1. An ax used by Native American warriors.
  2. A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head.
  3. A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
  4. A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.
  5. To strike with a tomahawk.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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