uppercut

See also: upper cut

English

Etymology

From upper +‎ cut.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

uppercut (plural uppercuts)

1. (boxing) A swinging blow aimed upwards at the opponent's chin.
2. (cricket) A cut shot that sends the ball over the wicket-keeper's head.

Translations

in boxing

• Arabic: لَكْمَة صَاعِدَة f (lakma(t) ṣāʕida)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ъ́перкът m (ǎ́perkǎt), (natively) у́дар изотдо́лу (údar izotdólu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: opstoot (nl) m, uppercut (nl) m
• Finnish: kohokoukku, uppari
• French: uppercut (fr) m
• Georgian: აპერკოტი (aṗerḳoṭi)
• German: Uppercut (de) m, Aufwärtshaken m
• Greek: άπερκατ (el) n (áperkat)
• Hungarian: felütés (hu)
• Irish: dorn aníos m, buille in airde m
• Italian: sergozzone m, montante (it) m
• Japanese: アッパーカット (appākatto), アッパー (appā)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: аперкат m (aperkat)
• Polish: hak (pl) m
• Portuguese: gancho (pt), cruza (pt)
• Romanian: upercut (ro) n
• Russian: апперко́т (ru) m (apperkót)
• Serbo-Croatian: aperkat (sh) m
• Spanish: gancho al mentón m, uppercut (es) m (Americas)
• Swedish: uppercut c
• Thai: หมัดเสย, หมัดสอยดาว
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

uppercut (third-person singular simple present uppercuts, present participle uppercutting, simple past and past participle uppercut)

1. To strike with an uppercut.

   The bowler was bowling a bouncer so he uppercut the ball for six.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English uppercut.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: up‧per‧cut

Noun

uppercut m (plural uppercuts, diminutive uppercutje n)

1. (boxing, martial arts) uppercut

   Synonym: opstoot

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English uppercut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /œ.pɛʁ.kœt/, /y.pɛʁ.kyt/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

uppercut m (plural uppercuts)

1. uppercut

Further reading

• “uppercut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English uppercut.

Noun

uppercut m (invariable)

1. uppercut

   Synonym: montante

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English uppercut. First attested in 1920.

Noun

uppercut c

1. (boxing) an uppercut

Declension

Declension of uppercut

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	uppercut	uppercuts
	definite	uppercuten	uppercutens
plural	indefinite	uppercuts, uppercutar	uppercuts, uppercutars
	definite	uppercutarna	uppercutarnas

References

• “uppercut”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “uppercut”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “uppercut”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)