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cackle bladder

cackle bladder is the alternative spelling of cackle-bladder.

Meaning of cackle-bladder

Noun

cackle-bladder (plural cackle-bladders)

  1. A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.
    • It tells you how they work on the mark's own larcenous cravings for a killing, how they build him up to betting his entire stake — and then "put the chill on" via the "cackle bladder" routine, a prop murder, so named because originally the "corpse" bit on a chicken bladder and drenched himself in...1951 June 16, Racket Squad (television review), in The Billboard, page 8

Forms of cackle bladder

pluralcackle bladders

Questions about cackle bladder

What is cackle bladder the alternative spelling of?
Cackle bladder is the alternative spelling of cackle-bladder.

Words near cackle bladder in the dictionary

  1. cackiest
  2. cacking
  3. cacking on
  4. cacking up
  5. cackle
  6. cackle bladder
  7. cackle bladders
  8. cackle fruit
  9. cackle-bladder
  10. cackle-bladders
  11. cackle-fart

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