assault and battery

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A criminal act involving both a threat of violence and actual physical contact with the victim.

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• noun law, idiomatic The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.

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• noun an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact