Matman

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A male wrestler.

    "But at that time the victories of this compactly built young man over the strongest matmen looked impossible. Alexander bore very little resemblance to the huge, not very agile kings of the wrestling mat."

  2. 2
    male combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground wordnet

Example

More examples

"But at that time the victories of this compactly built young man over the strongest matmen looked impossible. Alexander bore very little resemblance to the huge, not very agile kings of the wrestling mat."

Etymology

From mat + -man.

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