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Definition of Straightjacket
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Straightjacket
1. Noun. (misspelling of straitjacket) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Straightjacket
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straightjacket
Literary usage of Straightjacket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indiana Magazine of History by Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Library (1909)
"... establish and keep up a good school ? you would certainly think we ought to
have a straightjacket put upon us, and sent forthwith to the lunatic asylum. ..."
2. English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. by John Ashton (1884)
"Prussia, poor Prussia, with straightjacket on, And Crown of Straw, proves what
delays have done. Denmark too, half extinguished, shows, The fruits of ..."
3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference Under the Auspices of the National by National Tax Association (1915)
"... system is the fact that it is written into the constitution of the state and
is therefore, you might say, a form of taxation in a straightjacket. ..."
4. Genetic Information and Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor edited by James M. Jeffords (2001)
"... not write a bill or modify a bill in such a way that we straightjacket the
information that could be to the benefit of everybody, broadly. The CHAIRMAN. ..."
5. The Likelihood Principle by James O. Berger, Robert L. Wolpert (1988)
"This seems too severe a straightjacket, however. 0ne can always be skeptical of
lucky observations and seek possible alternative reasons for them, ..."
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