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hit
(redirected from hitting below the belt)

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hit
1. To sell a security at a bid price quoted by a dealer. For example, a trader will hit a bid.
2. To lose money on a trade. For example, a dealer may take a hit on the holdings of Moore's Fried Foods' common stock.


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Both have reputations for being dirty fighters, Golota more so for his two infamous disqualification losses in 1996 to Riddick Bowe for hitting below the belt.
TSZYU IS FIGHTING FOR RESPECT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
It is as bad to pose as a thing as to be the thing itself, according to the marquess of Queensberry, the man who, ironically, invented the concept of not hitting below the belt, in his 1895 attack on Oscar Wilde.
No fruit in his basket by Vilanch, Bruce / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
It was a more eloquent, simple statement on what the GOP stands for than anyone has been able to muster since Reagan, who also knew how to tweak the other party with a joke or a pointed observation, but always with a smile, and never hitting below the belt.
ARNOLD'S PLAIN SPEAKING A `BREATH OF FRESH AIR' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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