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yoke noun- a tablet of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy IRELAND
This usage is an extension of the Hiberno-English use of the term for “something whose name does not spring immediately to mind”. - A male voice asked the Garda for some “yokes”–which he took to mean the supply of ecstasy tablets[.] — Irish Times, 9th May 1998
- a choke hold US
Identified by Stroud as originally military slang embraced by the police. - — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 277, 1987
- robbery by force US
- Three young colored boxers, aged 14, 16, and 17, terrorized Washington a few months ago, committing at least 19 yoke robberies, netting more than $2,000. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 53, 1951
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