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pump your fist

Portuguese translation: erguer o punho

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English term or phrase:pump your fist
Portuguese translation:erguer o punho
Entered by: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

03:10 Aug 18, 2013
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: pump your fist
This is a reference to a celebration and gesture.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fistpump
When you throw your fist in the air in an excited/victorious manner, often accompanied by a lunge of the body.
Liz walked out of saturday detention and gave a little jump as she fistpumped the air, 80s style.
Marcella S.
New Zealand
Local time: 20:49
erguer o punho
Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(PT)...
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 09:49
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4erguer o punho
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
4 +1soque o ar
Vidomar (X)
4Gesto (de comemoração) com o punho cerrado
Marlene Curtis


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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
erguer o punho


Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(PT)...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 09:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 80
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Claudio!
agree  Márcio Clemente
6 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Márcio!
agree  Paulinho Fonseca
9 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Paulinho!
agree  Fatima Noronha
9 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Fatima!
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Gesto (de comemoração) com o punho cerrado


Explanation:


Reinaldo Lima - Comecei a comemorar meus gols com o punho ...
https://pt-br.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid...id...‎
Comecei a comemorar meus gols com o punho cerrado porque era um gesto socialista, revolucionário e eu queria ajudar no processo de redemocratização do ...

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Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 04:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 199
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
soque o ar


Explanation:
It´s not simply putting your first uo, as "erguer o punho" might suggest. It´s really kind of punching the air. Pelé used to do that after scoring a goal.

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Note added at 11 hrs (2013-08-18 15:05:23 GMT)
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I translated it as an imperative. Of course, the translation "socar o ar" would also apply.

Vidomar (X)
Local time: 05:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Wagner Azevedo: Yes.
1 day 9 hrs
  -> Thanks, Wagner
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