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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet..
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 […]
Use hatchetation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hatchetation means A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet..
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I tell you I was strongly tempted to perform a little hatchetation on them. And cigarette smoke? Phew!
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