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straitjacket
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket" a jacket-like garment used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means ...
Wikipedia
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A straitjacket is a garment used for restraint. Straitjacket may also refer to: Straitjacket (comedy duo) , a comedy team from England Strait Jacket , a novel series by Ichirō Sakaki
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others. 2 A metaphor used to describe ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cameron knew how good his son really was, and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket . ▪ Designed for a government of clerks, civil service became a straitjacket in an era of knowledge workers. ▪ However, as no ...
Usage examples of straitjacket.
These two worlds are differently conceptualised and differently evaluated, and though we live simultaneously in both we can no more force our experience into a repressive existential straitjacket which recognizes only one form of perception than we can separate ourselves into two distinct individuals.
She stumbled so much in her insistence in taking part in everything that she felt herself upset by gusts of bad humor and she tried to get rid of the shadows that were beginning to wrap her in a straitjacket of cobwebs.
Lecter in the straitjacket and leg restraints as he stood with his back to the bars, Chilton poised with the Mace, before they opened the door to carry in his tray.
They should immediately be put in the hospital, put on fluroxene, put in a straitjacket, given therapy, and let back on the street when they become normal again.
Would the psychiatrist chase after her or worse still send somebody else after her with a straitjacket, some tranquillises and a free ticket to the local funny farm?
Thinking of what she had done made him want to scream, and it made the world - which he badly needed to stay in touch with, if he didn't want to end up behind bars, probably laced into a straitjacket and stuffed full of Thorazine - begin to fuzz out.
Renny lay on the bed, incased in a straitjacket, his huge fists jerking inside the stout canvas as his disarranged mind still sought to fight something in the air over his head.
The Lycée itself seemed to rise up out of a lake of thin snow, an inverted mountain that pointed down toward the center of the earth where God or the Devil works always in a straitjacket grinding grist for that paradise which is always a wet dream.
Crazy Megan also mentions what just plain Megan would never in a million years tell him-about the fake computerized picture of Megan in a straitjacket that made the rounds of Jefferson High two weeks ago.
And at last, I think a more basic truth must have overwhelmed the rest of his calculations: the tape was off his mouth, but he was still wearing the straitjacket and probably he had to piss like a racehorse.
The social contract not only castrated man, but forced him into a straitjacket.
He gulped two of the pills down, and sat rock-still while they straitjacketed his writhing mind.
There were all kinds of clothes in the Queendom, including spray-on, wrap-on, and clothes that looked like a ball of putty until you stepped on them or smacked them with your fist, at which point they came alive and sort of straitjacketed themselves around you, taking on some stylish cut and color.
A miracle based probably on some individual chance peculiarity of strength that the other eight men in straitjackets lacked.
I'm not going to have any crew back in straitjackets again, just because you were too sleepy to warn me they'd revert!