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drumhead tribunal

drumhead tribunal noun: a drumhead court-martial.

Noun

drumhead tribunal (plural drumhead tribunals)

  1. A drumhead court-martial.
    • I never knew you, Christopher Okigbo, / I saw you when an actor screamed "The tribes! / The Tribes!" I catch / the guttering, flare-lit / faces of Ibos, / stuttering, bug-eyed / prisoners of some drumhead tribunal.1969, Derek Walcott, “Negatives”, in Collected Poems, 1948-1984, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1986, page 124
    • By mid-2006, Australia thus remained one of the few foreign nations that still accepted the legality of Guantanamo's endless detention and drumhead tribunals.2012, Alfred W. McCoy, chapter 6, in Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, page 207

Forms of drumhead tribunal

pluraldrumhead tribunals

Questions about drumhead tribunal

What does drumhead tribunal mean?
Drumhead tribunal means a drumhead court-martial.
What part of speech is drumhead tribunal?
Drumhead tribunal is a noun.
What is the plural of drumhead tribunal?
The plural of drumhead tribunal is drumhead tribunals.

Words near drumhead tribunal in the dictionary

  1. drumhead cabbages
  2. drumhead clock
  3. drumhead clocks
  4. drumhead court-martial
  5. drumhead court-martials
  6. drumhead tribunal
  7. drumhead tribunals
  8. drumheads
  9. Drumheller
  10. Drumhellers
  11. Drumian

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