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straitjacket

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˈstɹeɪtˌd͡ʒækɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aaceijkrstttStarts with SEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person

Word origin

From strait (“restrictive”) + jacket.

Used in a sentence

  • There’s a couple of people actually wearing duct-tape straitjackets.
  • our ever-increasing bureaucratic straitjacket of regulations
  • [I]f we remain in one discipline, we remain in a straitjacket; an adequate theory of language evolution requires a lot of interdisciplinary work.

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