Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lathee .
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- noun A
martial art based on stick fighting originally practiced in India.
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- noun club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India
Etymologies
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Examples
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While off-duty, everyone should carry some sort of an implement, at least a 'lathi' or a dagger if they are out of home.
Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006
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Our Company's boundary line in some way conflicted with theirs, and a dispute arose which soon developed into a series of, first, most comical mix-ups, and afterwards into desperate "lathi" fights.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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'lathi' (baton) charge and use of teargas, 'the official said.
anthropologie du présent Alain Bertho 2010
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Indian police traditionally rely on a lathi , a heavy stick, as an enforcement tool; Mr. Sharma earned notoriety for being quick to draw a gun.
Claims of Faked Shootouts Tarnish Police Across India Geeta Anand 2012
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In 2009, the Rico Auto strike ended in the police resorting to lathi charge and firing, leaving one worker dead.
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I was reminded how the British had killed freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai in a similar lathi charge.
Dinkar Jain: To the Mahatma, From a Stateless Indian Dinkar Jain 2011
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Obama by ram lathi on Sunday, Feb 15, 2009 at 2: 23: 06 AM
Why Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States 2009
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The police of course have a history of ruthless suppression of the population that they have inherited from the British regime but sadly even after so many decades after independence the police machinery has not evolved very much from the colonial police, including in the police weapon of choice – the lathi.
Police brutality in India Shantanud 2009
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Singh was unhappy with the treatment meted out by the Jammu and Kashmir state government to the Amarnath Sanagrsh Samiti leaders in Jammu on Saturday where police opened lathi charge on Samiti leaders outside Abhinav Theater in Jammu before the solemn homage ceremony.
JammuTrader battling for life in Chandigarh Hospital after self immolation 2008
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The lathi of the police man is not even a semblance of safety and security as much a tool of undisguised aggression and dominance.
Delhi Official Insults Southern India on Legal Compliance Shantanud 2008
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