cackle-bladder

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.
    — 1951 June 16, Racket Squad (television review), in The Billboard, page 8, It tells you how they work on the mark's own larcenous cravings for a killing, how they build him up to betting his entire stake — and then "put the chill on" via the "cackle bladder" routine, a prop murder, so named because originally the "corpse" bit on a chicken bladder and drenched himself in chicken blood.

词形变化

cackle-bladders plural cackle bladder alternative

词源

From cackle + bladder, because originally chicken blood was used.
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