pixie
v.— «The security started putting up fences between the camps with razor wire. You could lose your finger on it. We started resisting, they started arresting us. Soon the security started conniving with the police to help beat us so we pixied at night generally just snipping it and taking it back to camp for building material.» —“Life on the Battle Star” Do or Die , 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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