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baskethold
 n.— «Patricia Sargent, 39, a disabled woman living in a residential program in Leominster funded by the state Department of Mental Retardation, drowned in her own vomit while being physically held down by staffers using a technique called the “baskethold.”» —“Waltham woman sues DMR over sister’s death” by Laurel J. Sweet MetroWest Daily News (Framingham, Mass.) June 11, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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