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

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.

FAMILY 'HAD TO GET OUT'

Hail to the sovereign of Shankill - if you don't doff the cap and bend the knee his gunmen will do it for you, with an introduction to the ancient art of knee-capping.