"garrotte" Definition

  1. a system of robbery with violence much practised on dark winter nights by ruffians who during summer infest racecourses and fairs. Their victims are generally weak men and delicate women. From the Spanish GARROTTE, because the practice generally commences with a throttling attack. Procedure is, however, various, these gentlemen being possessed of much ingenuity in the way of torture. “The cat” has within the past year or so done much to modify this offensive state of things, but the sympathetic appeals of certain tenderhearted M.P.’s and other philanthropists, who are not themselves likely to be garrotted, on behalf of the garrotters, will probably before long result in a withdrawal of the _lex talionis_, and a natural resumption of the garrotte system, with new adornments.

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Position in the dictionary: 1407 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: garrotting, gas, gassy, gate, gate-race, gatter, gaudy, gawfs, gawky, gay
Previous words in the dictionary: garreter, garnish, gargle, gardener, garden, gar, gape-seed, gape, ganger, gander month

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