subs. (athletics’).—A peculiar throw in wrestling. Also used as a verb and verbal subs.

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  1690.  D’URFEY, Collin’s Walk through London and Westminster, c. ii., p. 74.

        When th’ hardy Major, skill’d in Wars,
To make quick end of fight prepares,
By Strength or’e BUTTOCK CROSS to hawl him,
And with a trip i’th’ Inturn maul him.

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  1742.  ‘Handbill,’ in P. Egan’s Boxiana, vol. I., p. 45. I doubt not but I shall prove the truth of what I have asserted, by pegs, darts, hard blows, falls, and CROSS-BUTTOCKS.

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  1760.  SMOLLETT, Sir Launcelot Greaves, vol. II., ch. viii. He was on his legs again … but instead of accomplishing his purpose, he received a CROSS-BUTTOCK.

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  1836.  M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log, ch. xii. While the old woman keelhauled me with a poker on one side, he jerked at me on the other, until at length he gave me a regular CROSS-BUTTOCK.

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  1860.  Chambers’s Journal, vol. XIII., p. 347. He is initiated into all the mysteries of ‘hitting’ and ‘counterhitting,’ ‘stopping,’ and ‘infighting,’ ‘the suit in chancery, and the CROSS-BUTTOCK.’

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