Definition of jujitsu
: an art of weaponless fighting employing holds, throws, and paralyzing blows to subdue or disable an opponent
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Lovato flips her trainer Danielle Martin thanks to her six days a week MMA training schedule, which is made up of boxing, Muay Thai, ground fighting, and Brazilian jujitsu workouts.
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Demi Lovato recently got her blue belt in Brazilian jujitsu.
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Twist my arm: Is jujitsu-style training really what police officers need in order to be less dangerous in the field?
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Practitioners, medical experts and behaviorists say karate, taekwondo and Brazilian jujitsu are powerful tools, teaching children to stay calm, keeping them fit, helping them focus and building their confidence.
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The San Antonio Spurs team that beat the Heat in 2014 couldn’t have existed without their own salary-cap jujitsu.
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Yet through an act of narrative jujitsu, Trump and his allies have turned evidence that our intelligence agencies noticed their questionable contacts into vindication of their wild conspiracy theories.
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But Maduro now appears to be well positioned to overcome the worst crisis of his presidency, after performing a kind of political jujitsu that turned the opposition's strength in numbers into a potential weak point.
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Team Cormier grew to include a head coach who handles kickboxing, a jujitsu coach, a ground-game coach, a strength coach and two boxing coaches, along with a nutritionist, a chef and three friends or relatives who round out his support team.
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Origin and Etymology of jujitsu
Japanese jūjutsu, from jū weakness, gentleness + jutsu art, skill
JUJITSU Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of jujitsu for English Language Learners
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: a form of fighting without weapons that was developed in Japan : a Japanese martial art
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