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  2. Glossary of professional wrestling terms - Wikipedia

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    A. A wrestling event where a company's biggest draws wrestle. [ 1 ]Compare B-show and C-show. A group of a wrestling promotion's top stars who wrestle at an A-show. [ 1 ]Compare B-team. To suddenly discontinue a feud, angle, or gimmick due to a lack of fan interest or some other caveat (like injury), usually without explanation.

  3. Job (professional wrestling) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In professional wrestling slang, a job is a losing performance in a wrestling match. [1] It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect information related to kayfabe from being revealed. The term can be used a number of ways. When a wrestler is booked to lose a match, it is described as "a job".

  4. Kayfabe - Wikipedia

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    Professional wrestling. In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ ˈkeɪfeɪb /) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for ...

  5. Professional wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater [ 2 ] that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe) that the performers are competitive wrestlers. Although it entails elements of amateur wrestling and martial arts, including genuine ...

  6. Troll (slang) - Wikipedia

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    In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life. The methods and motivations of trolls can range from benign to sadistic. These messages can be inflammatory ...

  7. Pro-choice and pro-life - Wikipedia

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    The term pro-choice entered currency after pro-life and was coined by those who supported legal abortion as a response to the success of the pro-life branding. [1] [4] The first use of the term cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is in a 1969 issue of the California daily newspaper the Oxnard Press-Courier, which referred to "Pro-choice and ...

  8. Pro re nata - Wikipedia

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    Pro re nata is a Latin phrase meaning "in the circumstances" or "as the circumstance arises" (literally "for the thing born"). [1][2] In medical terminology, it is often abbreviated PRN or P.R.N. and refers to the administration of prescribed medication as the situation calls for it.

  9. Glossary of American football terms - Wikipedia

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    An illegal block or tackle using the legs to trip an opponent. line of scrimmage. One of six vertical planes parallel to the goal line when the ball is to be put in play by scrimmage. For each team in American football, the line of scrimmage is through the point of the ball closest to their end line.