| 单词 | twinkie defence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTwinkie defence Twinkie defence n. U.S. colloquial a legal defence of diminished responsibility in which the defendant's criminal behaviour is attributed to the effects of an unbalanced diet of convenience food; hence transferred, any unlikely excuse, explanation, or defence.The ‘Twinkie defence’ was first employed in 1979 in a San Francisco Supreme Court murder trial, but was disallowed as a legal defence by the U.S. Congress in 1981.extracted from Twinkien.2< as lemmas |
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