popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- official sumo tournament (six per year)
popular noun noun (generic) food, cooking sumo
- protrusion, projection
- hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, snack (served with a drink)
- frontal thrust out (winning technique), pushing one's opponent out of the ring
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- driving opponent out of the ring while gripping his belt
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) sumo
- debit, withdrawal
- pulling (one's opponent) down, frontal pull-down, hiki-otoshi
popular noun noun (generic) sumo
- overeagerness, rashness
- forward step-out
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- thrusting down (winning technique)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb sumo
- to cramp up, to tighten, to stiffen
- to be insistent, to persist (in one's opinion), to stick to one's guns
- to act tough, to bluff, to be defiant, to be unruly
- to prop up (e.g. with a post), to support
- to push out (one's legs or arms), to stretch (e.g. an arm against the wall), to press
- to thrust (one's opponent)
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands
popular noun noun (generic) sumo
- counterattack, slashing back
- railway switchback
- twisting backward knee trip
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo
- to slash back
- to strike back, to counterattack
- to retort
- to quickly turn the steering wheel in the opposite direction, to cut the wheel
- to perform a twisting backward knee trip