"special move" meaning in English

See special move in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: special moves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} special move (plural special moves)
  1. (video games) An exceptionally powerful fighting move. Categories (topical): Video games Synonyms: special Hyponyms: limit break, special defense
    Sense id: en-special_move-en-noun-EtnyyREo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: video-games

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "special moves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "special move (plural special moves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Mass media",
            "Software",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Computing",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, James Leach, Final Fight (game review in Your Sinclair issue 70)",
          "text": "The fighters move around nicely but when they carry out their special moves it occasionally gets rather confusing. You have the usual kick, thump, jump and duck moves plus others depending on whether you're playing Haggar, Guy or Cody."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exceptionally powerful fighting move."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "limit break"
        },
        {
          "word": "special defense"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-special_move-en-noun-EtnyyREo",
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "powerful",
          "powerful"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games) An exceptionally powerful fighting move."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "special"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "special move"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "special moves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "special move (plural special moves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "limit break"
    },
    {
      "word": "special defense"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Video games"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, James Leach, Final Fight (game review in Your Sinclair issue 70)",
          "text": "The fighters move around nicely but when they carry out their special moves it occasionally gets rather confusing. You have the usual kick, thump, jump and duck moves plus others depending on whether you're playing Haggar, Guy or Cody."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exceptionally powerful fighting move."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "powerful",
          "powerful"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games) An exceptionally powerful fighting move."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "special"
    }
  ],
  "word": "special move"
}

Download raw JSONL data for special move meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.