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Pistol whipping
"Pistol-whipping" and "to pistol-whip" were reported as "new words" of American speech in 1955, with cited usages form 1940s.
Pistol whipping may leave unusual lacerations on the body of the injured due to various protruding details fo the pistol.
References
- "Butt Stroke", Random House Unabridged Dictionary
- "Pistol whipping", Random House Unabridged Dictionary
- "Fifty Years Among the New Words: by John Algeo, p. 142, from vol. 30 (1955), no. 4 of the American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society
- "Pistol whipping", in Forensic Pathology, by David Dolinak, Evan W. Matshes, Emma O. Lew, 2006, ISBN 0122199510, p. 185