"low blow" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-low blow.ogg [Australia] Forms: low blows [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} low blow (plural low blows)
  1. (boxing) An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist. Categories (topical): Boxing Related terms: below the belt, dick move, dirty pool, dirty trick, cheap shot, rabbit punch, sucker punch Translations (an unfair or illegal blow in boxing): cop baix [masculine] (Catalan), isku vyön alle (Finnish), coup bas [masculine] (French), Tiefschlag [masculine] (German), מכה מתחת לחגורה (maká mitákhat lakhagorá) [feminine] (Hebrew), övön aluli ütés (Hungarian), buille íseal [masculine] (Irish), colpo basso (Italian), cios poniżej pasa [masculine] (Polish), lovitură sub centură [feminine] (Romanian), уда́р ни́же по́яса (udár níže pójasa) [masculine] (Russian), golpe bajo (Spanish), slag under bältet [neuter] (Swedish), уда́р ни́жче по́яса (udár nýžče pójasa) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-low_blow-en-noun-kyuOJrBI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Topics: boxing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war Disambiguation of 'an unfair or illegal blow in boxing': 84 16
  2. (figurative, by extension) Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-low_blow-en-noun-OTZ3xhJu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (an unfair attack): cop baix [masculine] (Catalan), 不公平的事 (Chinese), isku vyön alle (Finnish), coup bas [masculine] (French), övön aluli [adjective] (Hungarian), colpo basso (Italian), cios poniżej pasa [masculine] (Polish), lovitură sub centură [feminine] (Romanian), уда́р ни́же по́яса (udár níže pójasa) [masculine] (Russian), golpe bajo [masculine] (Spanish), slag under bältet [neuter] (Swedish), уда́р ни́жче по́яса (udár nýžče pójasa) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'an unfair attack': 47 53

Inflected forms

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