Vulcan death grip
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Vulcan death grip definition

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A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
(1996-10-27)

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