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southpaw

southpaw

Date: Aug 14 2008

Themes: Pop Culture, Sports

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“I can figure out southpaws. There are ways of beating these guys.”

- Boxer Oscar de la Hoya on who he will fight next. (latinboxing.com)

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

a left-handed person

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

There’s a very good chance that as you view this lesson, the computer mouse is in your right hand. In fact, 87% of the world is right handed. But 11% of people are southpaws.

Southpaw is a sports term for a left-handed person. No one’s really sure where the term comes from, but it might have something to do with the fact that most baseball fields face east, so a southpaw is more likely to hit the ball south, to left field.

Southpaw pitchers and hitters are dangerous in baseball, but southpaw boxers are even scarier. Since most boxers train against a right-handed person, when they fight southpaws there are a lot of surprises.

But Olympic gold medalist and world famous boxer Oscar de la Hoya says he can handle southpaws. That’s why his next fight might be against Winky Wright, who is left-handed.

In Britain, left-handed people are called mollydookers. This term comes from an old assumption that left-handed people are strange or that there’s something wrong with them. With the use of Molly, a woman’s name, this term implies that left-handed sportsmen are feminine. Try telling that to Winky Wright.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“Be ready for a wild pitch. The pitcher’s a southpaw.”

“We thought our child had terrible handwriting, but it turns out he’s just a southpaw!”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

majid_jjs (Slang) lefty, left-handed person; person who throws or punches with the left hand (Sports)
by majid_jjs
Pavlionka specifically, "southpaw" is a boxer who leads with his right hand and off his right foot (opposing to the usual style with the left) normally - it's just a left-handed person :D
by Pavlionka
punches with the left hand , it is not very strong but it is very effictive.
by senior electronics engineer
purplex southpaw is a boxer who use his left hand when boxing
by purplex
sabz hook with left hand
by sabz
laurawr A left-handed person
by laurawr
@rehanna@ any left-handed person
by @rehanna@
Eydo lefty, left-handed person; person who throws or punches with the left hand (Sports)
by Eydo
r8y8d hiting someone with your left hand
by r8y8d
birsencan being good at using left hand;to guess the next fist..
by birsencan
Juliny southpaws mean "left hands" or "left-handed people".
by Juliny

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su mint

su mint

China

sometimes use left-hand is useful

03:44 AM Mar 21 2009 |

lanrung

Viet Nam

a

01:15 AM Mar 18 2009 |

aunglawkeeshein

Myanmar

Thanks for that slang 

I have just taught that slagn to my students last week and found out they find useful and satisfied when they know who to say the left handed person in Slang.

 

Thanks a lot.

Hope to get more!!

03:32 AM Mar 10 2009 |

leirui

leirui

China

very good .i’d like

09:01 AM Mar 06 2009 |

gahara08

gahara08

Philippines

Yeah oscar can handle southpaws but he loose in his last fight against pacman, which is a southpaw too..

01:12 PM Feb 22 2009 |

dishy_gong

China

do things with left hand more than his/her right hand

01:34 AM Feb 19 2009 |

sokoko

sokoko

Mongolia

hi ya im left handed .. huhuhu

07:00 AM Feb 08 2009 |

narges

narges

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

i`m a left-handed!!!
see my forum about left-handeds:
Who is left-handed in here??!!

11:41 PM Feb 05 2009 |

kenianxin

kenianxin

China

it is a sport term to describe a person who is left-handed; we also got an old idea that the left-handed person is more clever than others.

07:01 AM Dec 25 2008 |

miffoo

miffoo

Slovakia

good

08:47 PM Nov 24 2008 |

rene arriaga

Honduras

im southpaw. somebody said that god created first perfect people and then he created the right handed people. its a joke!!!!!!

09:19 PM Aug 29 2008 |

sugarszd168@126.com

China

southpaw-a left- handed person
a right-brain development better than left-brain person

01:30 AM Aug 24 2008 |

Daninha

Daninha

Mexico

I heard southpaws are very smart =)

09:28 PM Aug 19 2008 |

andrea504

China

people think the southpaw is clever that others in china.

02:18 AM Aug 19 2008 |

baochungit

baochungit

Germany

thanks

04:51 PM Aug 16 2008 |

knight_77

knight_77

Saudi Arabia

i am happy to be

12:30 PM Aug 16 2008 |

davidhua

davidhua

China

when i was in high school ,one of my classmates was southpaw

10:52 AM Aug 16 2008 |

SÉRGIO

SÉRGIO

Brazil

it’s called “canhoto” in Brazil!

02:46 PM Aug 14 2008 |

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