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Tucker telephone

Tucker telephone noun: a torture device for giving electric shocks, designed using parts from an old-fashioned crank telephone.

Noun

Tucker telephone (plural Tucker telephones)

  1. A torture device for giving electric shocks, designed using parts from an old-fashioned crank telephone.
    • The inmate doctor wired him up on the "Tucker Telephone" with one wire to his penis and another to his big toe.1992, British Medical Association, quoting Case report: Tucker State Prison Farm, Tucker, Arkansas (1966), Medicine Betrayed: The Participation of Doctors in Human Rights Abuses, Zed Books, page 33
    • Although they enjoined the use of the Tucker telephone and similar instruments of torture, they noted that the Department of Corrections had dismissed a number of officials implicated in past violations and had instituted new rules to govern corporal punishment.2000 March 18, Malcolm M. Feeley with Edward L. Rubin, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57

Forms of Tucker telephone

pluralTucker telephones

Origin of Tucker telephone

Named after the Tucker State Prison Farm, where its inventor Dr. A. E. Rollins worked.

Questions about Tucker telephone

What does Tucker telephone mean?
Tucker telephone means a torture device for giving electric shocks, designed using parts from an old-fashioned crank telephone.
What part of speech is Tucker telephone?
Tucker telephone is a noun.
What is the plural of Tucker telephone?
The plural of Tucker telephone is Tucker telephones.

Words near Tucker telephone in the dictionary

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  2. Tucker County
  3. tucker fucker
  4. tucker fuckers
  5. tucker out
  6. Tucker telephone
  7. Tucker telephones
  8. tucker-bag
  9. tucker-bags
  10. tucker-box
  11. tucker-boxes

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