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assume
verb
▶ assume the angle; assume the position
to kneel for punishment doled out as part of a hazing ritual US, 1940- Next they told her to assume the angle – kneeling with her head down on her arms, which were flat on the floor. Her buttocks were up and her legs apart. — Time, p. 80, 13 January 1947
- “Assume the position.” While the boy knelt and held his genitals, Roy went for the fraternity paddle — Geoffrey Wadiner, The Asphalt Campus, p. 83, 1963
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