attitude-adjuster
attitude-adjuster
A club that can be used to make people comply, often a police officer's baton. Although the officer threatened to use his attitude-adjuster, the group of teens didn't seem remotely scared. In the midst of the chaos was a police officer using his attitude-adjuster to try to direct traffic. Go ahead, hit me with your attitude-adjuster—I still haven't done anything wrong!
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attitude-adjuster
n. a police officer’s nightstick; any club. Andy had a black attitude-adjuster hanging from his belt, and I wasn’t going to argue with him.
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