sprawl

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To sit with the limbs spread out.

   “There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.”

2. fiil To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

   “A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise”

3. fiil To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
4. isim An ungainly sprawling posture.
5. isim A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

   “He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.”

6. isim 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.