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Repeat, shifting your tailbone back and forth with a hold at each end range, for 30 to 60 seconds.
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Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
Then reach your hands forward and let your tailbone rock forward.
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Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
In Detroit’s overtime loss in Charlotte, Cunningham took a hard fall in the fourth quarter and appeared to hurt his tailbone.
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Zach Harper, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
Towns took a hard fall and landed on his tailbone toward the end of the third quarter, then grimaced in pain a couple possessions later after getting fouled on a drive to the rim.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Tailbone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailbone. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
tailbone
noun
tail·bone
ˈtā(ə)l-ˌbōn
: coccyx
Medical Definition
tailbone
noun
tail·bone
-ˈbōn, -ˌbōn
1
: a caudal vertebra
2
: coccyx
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