| 单词 | kneecapping |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskneecapping kneecapping n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > kneecapping kneecapping1975 1975 Observer 8 June 4/3 Ulster's gunmen have found they can get hold of Government cash by giving victims a ‘knee-capping’—their grim colloquialism for a bullet in the legs... Kneecapping..has replaced tarring and feathering as the province's most common form of terrorist punishment... ‘This so-called kneecapping is really a misnomer, because the kneecap itself is rarely touched.’ < as lemmas |
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