Meaning of hatchetation | Babel Free

Definitions

A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“I tell you I was strongly tempted to perform a little hatchetation on them. And cigarette smoke? Phew!”

“They'd carry on worse than Carry Nation did in all her hatchetations.”

“Carry's last hatchetation”

“[…] a more confrontational shot: Carry in battle dress, threatening the photographer with hatchetation.”

“Annie Diggs, a noted suffragist and nationally renowned Populist who later applauded Carry Nation's hatchetation of saloons, gave a lecture in Holton on "The Social Evil."”

“Carry Nation's hatchetation, or joint-smashing displays, helped pave the way for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment […]”

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