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concertina wire

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concertina wire
n.
Barbed wire that is extended in a spiral for use as a barrier, as on a fence.


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He and other diplomats are protected by rows of concertina wire, concrete barriers, closed-circuit cameras, shatterproof glass and phalanxes of heavily armed U.
At the legal checkpoint, we used concertina wire for the obstacle where each convoy had to stop and conduct face-to-face coordination with host-nation police.
Outside the convention, activists and protesters--ranging from hard-left radicals to more respectable people expressing principled disagreement--were confined to a "Free Speech Zone" in the form of a large metal cage, topped with concertina wire.
 
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