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hookswinging

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hook⋅swing⋅ing

[hook-swing-ing]
–noun
a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.

Origin:
1890–95; hook 1 + swing 1 + -ing 1
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