Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A saveloy that has been coated in batter and deep fried.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A men's gymnastic move where the gymnast leaps into the air, landing in a push-up position in which his groin touches the floor, or, by extension, any maneuver that results in crushing the male groin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, humorous
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From a shortened form of saveloy sausage. When used to refer to a gymnastics move or similar, the term was first coined by Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson on "The Dream" in their commentary on the 2000 Olympics Men's Gymnastics (because the gymnast "batters his sav").
