Jackboot Tactics - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jackboot tacticsjackboot tactics
Harsh strongarm tactics repressive bullying and militaristic tactics like those used in authoritarian or totalitarian countries used opprobriously and often in hyperbolic exaggeration of police tactics in democratic countries...
jackbooted
Wearing jackboots used especially as a metaphor for harshly repressive and militaristic as jackbooted government agents...
jackboot
a mans high tasseled boot...
filibuster
filibuster : the use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action esp. in a legislative assembly ;also : an instance of this practice vb -tered -ter·ing vi : to engage in a filibuster vt : to subject to a filibuster ...
lockup
lockup 1 : a cell or group of cells (as in a courthouse) or jail where persons are held prior to a court hearing compare house of correction, house of detention, jail, penitentiary, prison 2 : the tactic of arranging with a friendly party an option to buy a valuable portion of one's corporate assets in order to discourage a takeover by another party ...
picket
picket : a person posted by a labor organization at a place of employment affected by a labor dispute ;broadly : a person posted for a demonstration or protest vt : to post pickets in front of : walk or stand in front of as a picket [their tactics have included ing clinics "L. H. Tribe"] vi : to demonstrate by use of pickets [a currently certified union may for recognition] ;also : to serve as a picket see also informational picketing, organizational picketing, secondary picketing compare strike NOTE: While the right to peacefully picket for a lawful purpose is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, case law has recognized some limitations and the Labor Management Relations Act has placed some restrictions on organizational and secondary picketing. pick··et·er n ...
poison pill
poison pill : a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive or less desirable ...
Bunko
A kind of swindling game or scheme originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery but now used for any swindling tactic...
Coup
A sudden stroke delivered with promptness and force used also in various ways to convey the idea of an unexpected clever and successful tactic or stratagem...
diversionary
likely or designed to confuse or deceive of tactics...
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