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sent for: to be ordered to a meeting with other mob members and being whacked. shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare. shy: the interest charged on loans by loan sharks. shylock business: the business of loansharking. sitdown: a meeting, esp. with another family.
In most areas, guerrilla warfare operated as an adjunct to conventional military operations. The title adopted by the Confederate government in formally authorizing such insurgents was "partisan ranger".
Whacked! is a party game developed by Presto Studios and released in 2002 by Microsoft Game Studios exclusively for the Xbox. It was one of the two original games to be made available for Xbox Live, and it received mixed reviews. Whacked! was the last game developed by Presto Studios before it went defunct.
Wack, adjective, slang (from "whacked") for oppressive, crazy, stupid, poor quality, unfashionable. As a verb, it means to kill. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
In the early 1970s a dance style known as punking emerged, [5] with "punk" being a derogatory term for gay men at the time.The term "whack" was a specific movement within the punking style which involved moving the arms over the head in a rhythmic fashion.
Whacking with a wet trout or trouting is a common practice on Wikipedia when experienced editors slip up and make a silly mistake. It, along with sentencing to the village stocks, is used to resolve one-off instances of seemingly silly behavior amongst normally constructive community members, as opposed to long term patterns of disruptive edits, which earn warnings and blocks.
A Googlewhack must consist of two words found in a dictionary and was only considered legitimate if both of the search terms appear in the result. Published googlewhacks were short-lived since when published to a website, the new number of hits would become at least two: one to the original hit found, and one to the publishing site, unless a ...
The term 'Stir' also meaning time spent inside, is a derivation from the term Porridge. Screw Prison Officer – probably originating from a Victorian form of punishment involving a wheel to be turned on which a screw could be turned to make it more or less difficult.