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Kneecap   /nˈikˌæp/   Listen
Kneecap

verb
1.
Shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning.





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"Kneecap" Quotes from Famous Books



... horses were falling around him at every moment. St. Clair sent an aide, Lieutenant Ebenezer Denny, to ask how he was; he displayed no anxiety, and answered that he felt well. While speaking, a young cadet, who stood nearby, was hit on the kneecap by a spent ball, and at the shock cried aloud; whereat the General laughed so that his wounded side shook. The aide left him; and there is no further certain record of his fate except that he was slain; but it is said that in one of the Indian rushes ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt


Words linked to "Kneecap" :   sesamoid, articulatio genus, shoot, sesamoid bone, knee joint, genu, hit, knee, human knee, pip, os sesamoideum


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