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▸ verb: To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
▸ verb: (wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
▸ noun: An ungainly sprawling posture.
▸ noun: A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
▸ noun: (wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
Similar:
straggle,
splay,
straddle,
spraddle,
spread-eagle,
manspread,
spread,
sprad,
sploot,
outspread,
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urban,
suburban,
vast,
metropolitan,
industrial,
uncontrolled,
unplanned,
residential,
ugly,
endless,
anti
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