Attitude-adjuster
attitude-adjuster
noun phrase
A police officer’s club or stick
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manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes. position or posture of the body appropriate to or expressive of an action, emotion, etc.: a threatening attitude; a relaxed attitude. Aeronautics. the inclination of the three principal axes of an […]
- Attitudinarian
a person who assumes attitudes or poses for effect.
- Attitudinize
to assume ; pose for effect. Historical Examples Then Ma, seizing a sword, began to attitudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio vol. II (of 2) Songling Pu Ma then got up and began to attitudinize, singing a plaintive air like the girls with the turbans. Strange Stories […]
- Attercop
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- Attius
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