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straitjacket definition

strait·jacket (strāt′jak′it)

noun

  1. a coatlike device that binds the arms tight against the body: used to restrain persons in a violent state
  2. anything that confines or limits

transitive verb

to confine or restrict with or as with a straitjacket

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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