scissor hold

Questions about scissor hold

What is another word for scissor hold?

It depends which scissor hold you mean. In the sense “a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze”, the synonyms are scissors, scissors hold, scissor grip, scissors grip. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of scissor hold?

WordNet records no antonym for scissor hold. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for scissor hold come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of scissor hold

• Full entry for scissor holdAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for scissor holdWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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