See Also: throw-in(dictionary)
Throw(medicine)
out-throw(dictionary)
throw(1)(dictionary)
throw(2)(dictionary)
throw-(dictionary)
throw-away(dictionary)
throw(dictionary)
discus throw(encyclopedia)
hammer throw(encyclopedia)

throw- (iou)



throw- combining form.
[from THROW noun2 or verb.]
Forming combs. with nouns or adverbs.
throw-back noun (a) a backward movement; (b) an arrest or reverse in a course or progress, a setback; (c) reversion to an earlier ancestral type or to the methods etc. of an earlier period; an instance of this: M19.
throw cushion noun (N. Amer.) = scatter cushion s.v. SCATTER verb L20.
throw-down noun (a) slang a fall, as in wrestling; fig. a comedown, a defeat; (b) Austral. & NZ a type of small firework, a squib: L19.
throw-forward noun Rugby Football an illegal forward pass, a knock-on L19.
throw-in noun (a) Football an act of throwing the ball on to the pitch from the place where it has gone out of play; (b) Cricket & Baseball an act of throwing in the ball from the outfield; (c) Bridge an end play in which the declarer throws the lead to an opponent who has to play into a tenace combination: M19.
throw-line,
throw-net nouns a fishing-line or net cast out by hand E20.
throw-off noun (a) Hunting the throwing-off or releasing of the hounds on a hunt, the start of a hunt; gen. the start of a race etc.; (b) an act of shaking off or getting free from; (c) a thing which is thrown off, an offshoot: M19.
throw-out noun (a) an act of throwing out; spec. in Cricket, the act of throwing out an opponent; (b) a thing thrown out; something discarded, a reject; (c) a page or bound insert in a book etc. which folds out beyond the normal page size, used esp. for maps and illustrations: L19.
throw-over noun (a) an act or the result of throwing over something or someone;
throw-over switch, a switch by which each of two or more electric circuits may be brought into operation alternatively; (b) a wrap to throw over the shoulders, a loose outer garment: E19.
throw-stick noun (a) a heavy usu. curved piece of wood used as a missile; (b) = throwing-stick (a) s.v. THROWING: M19.
throw weight noun (Military) the weight of warheads which a missile can carry to a target M20.