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  • noun Plural form of garrotte.

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Examples

  • If it was frightening to watch crowds at rallies for John McCain and Sarah Palin be whipped into ugly anger, it should also be troubling to hear talk radio talk and cable news noise about torchlight, pitchforks and garrottes.

    Marty Kaplan: The Upside of Outrage 2009

  • Some of his ruses to help defeat the Germans included chocolate laced with garlic so agents dropped into France quickly acquired authentically local breath; a hairbrush containing a map and a saw; and fortified shoelaces doubling as steel garrottes.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Well stop teaching the little guys to use them as garrottes and you won’t have that problem anymore!

    Regretsy – KILL ALL BABIES 2010

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