wrists

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of wrist.

   The gymnast taped her wrists carefully before the routine.

   Years of typing at the office left her wrists sore and stiff.

   Note

   A plural that serves two quite different things: the joints where the hands meet the arms, and, in machinery, the studs or pins that form a journal. The same spelling also works as a verb, the present-tense form of the shot-making verb. In "her wrists ache" and "she wrists it home", one spelling plays two parts, and only the sentence shows which.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of wrist.

   The winger wrists a quick shot past the goalie from the slot.

   He often wrists the puck over the goalie's glove from close range.

   Note

   A sporting verb built straight from the body part: to wrist something is to hit a wrist shot, with the flick of the joint doing the work. It normally takes a direct object, the shot itself or the thing struck, as in wrists a quick shot past the keeper. The -s ending marks a single subject: one striker wrists, while two players wrist.

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