If your left foot is forward, or you are facing to the right you are in the position called "regular".
If your right foot is forward, or you are facing to the left you are in the position called "goofy".
Those who refused received a "spanking," meaning a beating, sometimes while the victims' limbs were crossed in a position called the "chicken wing".
Now I am straddled above him in a position called the mount -- a good place to be -- and I start to relax.
Toward the end of his routine, he stands on his head for a few minutes in a position called the Feathered Peacock.
It's common to sketch the shoulders and hips tilted in opposite directions, in a position called contrapposto, or counterpose.
One x-ray will be a normal one with your legs extended, and the other one in a position called "frog legs".
This coveted position, called an E.I.R. in Silicon Valley shorthand, is emblematic of the valley's economy of ideas.
Some wrestlers pumped weights in furious repetitions with equally furious grimaces, while others slid and scuttled across the dohyo in a crouched position called the suriashi.
However, in 1953 the sixth runner, a position called rover, was eliminated.
