9 definitions by Nick Cusa

boom boom

Nickname for a fighter who throws many hard, punishing blows.

Nickname of Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini (also used by his boxing father)

by Nick Cusa September 3, 2006

Put the nut in

British expression for a head butt, in street brawls or (illegally) in boxing matches, to break a nose or open a cut. "Nut" is standard British slang for head.

When Henry Cooper, famed British boxer, learned an old foe had died, he commented: "He was a dirty bastard. He liked to put the nut in."

by Nick Cusa June 27, 2011