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Definition of: straitjacket
(strāt′jak′it) noun
1. A tight jacket of strong canvas, for confining the arms of violent mental patients or prisoners.
2. Anything that unduly confines or restricts.
—v.t. To confine in or as if in a straightjacket.
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