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southpaw

noun

One who is left-handed, especially in sports. A left-handed pitcher.

  • Since home plate is generally in the southwest corner to avoid glare in the batter's eyes, a southpaw's pitching hand is to the south.

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Brook was supreme, rarely if ever troubled by Gavin, a technically gifted southpaw who in 2007 became England's first world amateur champion.

The Irish southpaw who captured the WBO middleweight championship in December came off the canvas twice on Saturday to salvage a split draw against Peter Quillin in a 12-round fight at Barclays Center.

World-wide, one person in ten is currently believed to be a southpaw.

He points out that "a typical man changes more diapers than ever before, and gets less credit than ever before…The potential of Daddy-and-me relationships remains untapped".Then there is a more sinister development, the rise of the southpaw.

With lefties on the march, "it won't be long before marketers stop shunning them and instead grab the edge in the lefty marketplace, with more swappable handles on their products and more southpaw versions".The number of "vegan children" is also set to soar.

IT IS hard to box against a southpaw, as Apollo Creed found out when he fought Rocky Balboa in the first of an interminable series of movies.

These albums, and the less impressive Southpaw Grammar (1995) and Maladjusted (1997), testified to a growing homoerotic obsession with criminals, skinheads, and boxers, a change paralleled by a shift in the singer's image from wilting wallflower to would-be thug sporting sideburns and gold bracelets.

The veteran southpaw slugger is one of boxing's toughest hombres and Barker is a huge underdog.

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