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Kneecap   Listen
verb
kneecap  v. t.  To break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment. Note:
Synonyms: knee-cap.






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"Kneecap" Quotes from Famous Books



... brother and Hamil she was mounted on an unornamental but wiry Tallahassee horse; and she rode cross-saddle, wearing knee-coat and kilts of kahkee and brown leather puttees strapped from under the kneecap to the ankle. Like the others, too, she carried a small shotgun in a saddle boot, and in the web loops across her breast glimmered the metal rims of a dozen cartridges. A brilliant handkerchief knotted loosely around her bare white throat, and a broad Panama turned up in front and resolutely pulled ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers



Words linked to "Kneecap" :   shoot, human knee, articulatio genus, sesamoid, pip, patella



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