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hari-kari

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ha·ri-ka·ri  (här-kär, hr-kr)
n.
Variant of hara-kiri.
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Mulcahy for some weeks understood very little of anything at all save that ever at his elbow, in camp or at parade, stood two big men with soft voices adjuring him to commit hari-kari lest a worse thing should happen - to die for the honour of the regiment in decency among the nearest knives.
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