Cross buttock

a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

See also: Cross

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Maker of the brilliantly titled Cross Buttock Ale (a Cumberland wrestling move), it took a pounding in the floods - barrels of beer swept away to be scavenged by some lucky souls.
Treat yourself to fish and chips, or cod loin with beer butter and homemade chips and tartar sauce, in their new luxury dining room upstairs, or enjoy a pint of Cross Buttock real ale and Jennings Sneck Lifter, their tasty dark beer derived from the use of coloured malts.
Then the next thing you know, he's exercising his specs appeal weighing up whether to put a cross buttock or a half nelson on this shady lady.