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hogtie
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hog·tie or hog-tie  (hôgt, hg-)
tr.v. hog·tied or hog-tied, hog·tie·ing or hog-tie·ing or hog·ty·ing or hog-ty·ing, hog·ties or hog-ties
1. To tie together the feet or legs of.
2. Informal To impede or disrupt in movement or action. See Synonyms at hamper1.

hogtie [ˈhɒgˌtaɪ]
vb -ties, -tying, -tied (tr) Chiefly US
1. to tie together the legs or the arms and legs of
2. to impede, hamper, or thwart


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She recalled one especially chilling message: The caller, referring to a brutal murder that had been in the news at the time, told her, "You should be hogtied and thrown in the Escambia River, like that girl was last year.
Although the moon had been full and the boys had been hogtied, the crime did not exactly scream Lucifer.
Over the span of a month, investigators said, this sophomore had been spat on, hogtied, held inside a gymnasium locker, slammed into walls, and held down while others forced the handle of a plastic knife into his rectum.
 
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