Usually means: Throwing motion using arm overhead.
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  1. overarm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overarm: Merriam-Webster
  3. overarm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overarm, overarm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overarm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overarm: Vocabulary.com
  7. overarm: Wordnik
  8. overarm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overarm: Wiktionary
  10. overarm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overarm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overarm: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. overarm: Dictionary.com
  14. overarm: FreeDictionary.org
  15. overarm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. overarm: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. overarm: Rhymezone

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Throwing while having the hand above the elbow
adverb:  Having the hand above the arm at the time of throwing
noun:  (dated) A style of swimming of extending the arms alternatively
verb:  (transitive) To provide with more weaponry than necessary.

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