cackle-bladder

短语

发音

AU /ˈkækəlˌblædə(ɹ)/

词形变化

cackle-bladders 复数

别名

cackle bladder

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.

    1951 June 16, Racket Squad (television review), in The Billboard, page 8, It tells you how they work on the mark's own larcenous cravings for a killing, how they build him up to betting his entire stake — and then "put the chill on" via the "cackle bladder" routine, a prop murder, so named because originally the "corpse" bit on a chicken bladder and drenched himself in chicken blood.

词源

From cackle + bladder, because originally chicken blood was used.

来源：wiktionary