Meaning of Tucker telephone | Babel Free

Definitions

A torture device for giving electric shocks, designed using parts from an old-fashioned crank telephone.

Examples

“The inmate doctor wired him up on the "Tucker Telephone" with one wire to his penis and another to his big toe.”

“Although they enjoined the use of the Tucker telephone and similar instruments of torture, they noted that the Department of Corrections had dismissed a number of officials implicated in past violations and had instituted new rules to govern corporal punishment.”

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