roundhouse punch

roundhouse punch
n. a punch to the head made by swinging the arm in an arc rather than by a jabbing punch.
Jim knocked Ted down with a roundhouse punch.
He let him have a roundhouse punch that would have cracked a two-by-four.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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