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- noun A
violent protest against the drinking ofalcohol in which the protester attacks thebar with ahatchet .
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This is how the Senate Bar, a Topeka saloon favored by state officials, fell to a Nation attack or, using another of her neologisms, a “hatchetation”: “I ran behind the bar,” she wrote, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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This is how the Senate Bar, a Topeka saloon favored by state officials, fell to a Nation attack or, using another of her neologisms, a “hatchetation”: “I ran behind the bar,” she wrote, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Prof. GRACE: Her hatchetation, which was her word that she substituted for agitation.
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Prof. GRACE: That was soon after she started her crusade, when she did her hatchetation in Topeka, which was in February 1901.
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She referred to this period of her life as one of “hatchetation.”
Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate Shayla Love 2025
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She referred to this period of her life as one of “hatchetation.”
Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate Shayla Love 2025
hernesheir commented on the word hatchetation
An image of Carrie Nation, the hatchet-wielding bar-busting battle-axe of the Temperance Movement in the US is here.
December 8, 2011