What is that gesture called?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Am not aware it has a name.  I'd call it something like, "that gesture of intense glee where you go [visual demonstration] 'YESS.' "

If I've seen it called anything at all (not sure if I have), I suspect it was "a victory gesture" of some kind.

It was popularized in sports in the late '80s or early '90s:  very vague on dates here, but I know I never knew about it before then, at the earliest.

JL
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The clenched fist pulled downward, usually accompanied by an emphatic
"Yess!!"

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