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garrotte
(redirected from garotting)

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garrotte, garrote, garotte
1. a Spanish method of execution by strangulation or by breaking the neck
2. the device, usually an iron collar, used in such executions
3. Obsolete strangulation of one's victim while committing robbery


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As will him splattering David Mellor against a wall for criticising him in his local paper column, banning Ashley and Joe Cole from clubbing in Soho in case they bump into any gays, and garotting Peter Kenyon with the next losers' medal Michel Platini places round his fat neck.
All you have to do is squiggle some "moods" on an envelope then watch for the queues of people garotting each other in the throat to buy your snoods to snake down Oxford Street.
Byline: BRIAN READE LAST Sunday as Arjen Robben was auditioning for the role of a garotting victim in Godfather IV, up in the north east they were holding a memorial service for Jimmy Thorpe.
 
 
 
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