crowpecking
n.— «In the court action now being launched, each of the claimants alleges a number of staff regularly hit them on the head with a clenched fist in a practice known as “crowpecking.”» —“Ellindon School: Ex-pupils launch abuse legal claim” Peterborough Today (Cambridgeshire, England) Nov. 8, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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