Kneecapping

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Kneecapping

Informal; the act of stopping a trend. The term is highly derogatory. For example, an analyst may accuse a government of kneecapping GDP growth by adopting a certain policy.

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Yes, there is continued violence, bigotry, knee-capping and murder.

STOTTY ON SUNDAY: PEACE BY PIECE

They include the murder of Belfast taxi-driver Charlie Bennett in August this year, many "knee-capping" operations, and the August "expulsion orders" on several teenage Catholic youths judged guilty of antisocial activities within the community.

IRA terrorists (Northern Ireland)

As he recovered in hospital John, the oldest person to suffer a knee-capping in Ulster, said masked gunmen broke into his high- rise flat.

OAP is knee-capped

THE family of a teenager allegedly made to carry guns used in a dissident republican knee-capping have been intimidated from their home, the High Court heard yesterday.