golpe bajo

Spanish

Noun

golpe bajo m (plural golpes bajos)

1. (boxing) low blow (an unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist)
2. (figurative) low blow (any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous)

Further reading

• “golpe bajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28