Denoting a blow or throw executed with the arm not fully extended or with motion from the elbow only.
（一击或扔掷时）弯臂发出的
with a short-arm swing and a snap of the wrist, he shattered the sentry's skull
Example sentencesExamples
Sanath Jayasuriya is devastating because with his short-arm method he doesn't require much width to wallop the ball.
He also has a deceptive, short-arm delivery that is hard to pick up.
This explains why he is so strong on the cut and the pull; like Jayasuriya he can use the short-arm method, cashing in on the slightest errors in either width or length.
His cuts and pulls - Jayasuriya's most fearsome strokes - are no more than short-arm jabs, with his powerful forearms and wrists coming into play.
Definition of short-arm in US English:
short-arm
adjectiveˈSHôrdˌärm
Denoting a blow or throw executed with the arm not fully extended or with motion from the elbow only.
（一击或扔掷时）弯臂发出的
with a short-arm swing and a snap of the wrist, he shattered the sentry's skull
Example sentencesExamples
His cuts and pulls - Jayasuriya's most fearsome strokes - are no more than short-arm jabs, with his powerful forearms and wrists coming into play.
He also has a deceptive, short-arm delivery that is hard to pick up.
Sanath Jayasuriya is devastating because with his short-arm method he doesn't require much width to wallop the ball.
This explains why he is so strong on the cut and the pull; like Jayasuriya he can use the short-arm method, cashing in on the slightest errors in either width or length.