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kneecapping

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knee·cap  (nkp)
n.
1. See patella.
2. See kneepad.
tr.v. knee·capped, knee·cap·ping, knee·caps
To cripple by shooting in the legs, especially in the knees.
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German kneecapping [ˈniːkæpɪŋ] n → Durchschießen nt der Kniescheibe
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A CONTROVERSIAL REPORTER for one of the nation's leading newspapers stumbles onto what at first looks like a routine Washington story but eventually, after two years of mounting federal inquiry, becomes a wide-reaching scandal that rocks the very foundations of the White House, kneecapping the second presidential term of a big-government Republican hell-bent on expanding executive power.
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Will public broadcasting survive? by Aufderheide, Pat / The Progressive
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