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heel
noun- a dishonourable or untrustworthy individual US, 1914
- So you reckon I’m being a heel do youse. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- in professional wrestling, a wrestler designed by the promoters to be seen by the audience as a villain US
- For examples: wrestle is “work”; fall is “going over”; “finish” is the routine just before the deciding fall; hero is “baby face”; villain is “heel.” — Pappy Boyington, Baa Baa Black Sheep, p. 375, 1958
- “It’s rough out there,” panted television’s Mr. T., who joined good-guy wrestling champion Hulk Hogan in stomping two heels in a tag-team grudge match. — Associated Press, 31 March 1985
- “Heel” is the name given to wrestlers that blatantly break the rules, thus becoming the object of the fans’ hatred. — Pat Barrett, Everybody Down There Hates Me, p. 221, 1990
- Types of heels: the rulebreaker, the underhanded fop, the interfering manager, the nasty foreigner, the diabolic brat, the disloyal sibling, the braggart, the evolutionary throwback. — Herb’s Wrestling Tidbits, 28 September 1995
- Gorgeous George was a heel with heat. His flaunting, taunting performances provoked loud, exuberant expressions of apparently homophobic antipathy in the audience. — Sharon Mazer, Professional Wrestling, p. 94, 1998
- — Dallas Hudgens, Washington Post, p. 36, 10 March 2000: “A wrestling glossary”
- by extension, any figure in the wrestling business designed by the promoters to be disliked by the fans US
- He was riding on this moment of fame in his local gigs, where he would appear as heel manager “Big Daddy Money Bucks”[.] — Sharon Mazer, Professional Wrestling, p. 161, 1998
- When Smoky began an interpromotional feud with the USWA, Brian had finally gotten a chance to wrestle, and as a vicious heel referee turned wrestler, was finally able to truly showcase his talents. — Mick Foley, Herb’s Wrestling Tidbits, p. 301, 1999
- He is still a superb heel announcer, yet his sharp edge has been honed, and at times he almost comes across as a normal guy. — Jeff Archer, Theater in a Squared Circle, p. 36, 1999
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