词汇 | yoked |
词源 | yoked. Yoked is today a synonym for “mugged.” It arose with 19th-century “Jumper Jacks,” or muggers, who preyed on sea- men, who yoked a sailor by grabbing him from behind by the yoke of his tight collar and twisting his neckerchief. |
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