receipt

n. In professional wrestling, a payback, score-settling, or revenge taken for true physical injury or insult. Subjects: English, United States, Entertainment, Jargon

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Citations: 1996 [The Undertaker (undrtker@mo.net)] Usenet: rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy (Apr. 25) “DEWF Thursday Thunder for 4/25/96!!! (Part One)”: This match, as Joey might put it, was a “receipt” for Awesome throwing Vader out of the Extreme Rumble for the DEWF Heavyweight Title. Really. It was gruesome. 2000 John Leland Newsweek (Feb. 7) “Our Man Goes to the Mat” p. 54: If you hurt your opponent for real, he might “get a receipt,” or return the favor. “It’s like a waltz,” yells Ed, counting off a one-two-three rhythm. “Your opponent is really your partner.” 2000 Terry Gross Fresh Air (NPR) (Apr. 24) “Interview With Bret Hart”: In wrestling, there’s a thing called—they’re referred to as potatoes, is when you accidentally hurt somebody for real. And, you know, it—one potato’s OK, two potatoes is crossing the line, and the third one, you usually give what they call a receipt, which is you give one right back. 2004 Mike Mooneyham Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) (July 18) “Bret Hart has something to say about Flair’s book”: “Personally,” Flair says in his book, “I never saw dollar signs on Bret Hart.” According to Flair, Hart was too protective of his own image. “(Bret) could have been the president of his own fan club.”…That Flair finally issued what in wrestling parlance is known as a “receipt” should have come as no surprise to Hart or his fans.

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