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punching bag

noun as in boxing equipment

Weak matches

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Hatton's parents made a small gym in the basement of their pub when he was 12, and it was there that he honed his skills on a punching bag.

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He was a favorite punching bag of the mainstream media, a slovenly suburban Ahab doomed to fail.

The house itself boasted a gym with a punching bag and a games room where he could play pool and table football.

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Now he was standing up to the bully who loves to use California, Newsom and our progressive politics as a punching bag.

They approach a black punching bag on weary, sometimes wobbly feet.

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