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manganellata

baton blow, truncheon strike

noun mahn-gah-nel-LAH-tah Rare

Usage Note

Manganellata is the noun of action formed from manganello (police baton/truncheon) with the suffix -ata (a blow with the named object). Italian productively builds such nouns: schiaffoschiaffata, bastonebastonata. It appears most frequently in journalistic reports on policing or crowd control. Plural: manganellate.

Examples

"Il manifestante ricevette una manganellata."

Natural Translation

The protester received a baton blow.

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