execution-style

[Dan Goncharoff]

I am surprised that "executed ... execution-style" survived the internal
editor in the brain of people supposedly of above-average literacy.

DanG

DanG


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> _All Things Considered_ reports that Syrian rebels "executed
> [captives] execution-style."
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> I.e., with a bullet to the head. Not in OED.  "Gangland-style" is a near
> synonym, also absent from OED. Nor does OED really recognize the 20th C.
> sense of "execution" as "the murder of a rival, esp. on orders, by a member
> of a criminal gang, ."
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