Definition of "overarm" [overarm]

• Sports Executed with the arm raised above the shoulder; overhand: an overarm throw. (adjective)
• Sports Of, relating to, or being a stroke in swimming that is begun with the arm lifted and stretched forward over the shoulder. (adjective)
• To supply (a nation, for example) with an excess of weaponry, especially nuclear missiles. (verb-transitive)

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• "I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer."
• "Samuel immediately reached for a stone that was roughly the size of a cricket ball, took a breath, and threw it overarm at the boxes of bottles."
• "A pitcher (known as the bowler), surrounded by fielders, throws a leather ball in an overarm action onto the ground toward a batter (batsman)."