cosh
📖 Definitions
noun
1. A short, thick, heavy stick, used as a weapon. Also known as a truncheon, blackjack, bludgeon, etc.
2. An attack with, or as if with, such a weapon.
verb tr.
To hit with, or as if with, such a weapon.
💬 Usage Examples
“Steven Spielberg: We, too, felt the pain of the 2008 global financial crisis and were under the cosh.” Sandeep Bamzai; Hollywood Idol Charms Bollywood’s Best; India Today (New Delhi); Mar 25, 2013. “Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wrote a landmark paper explicitly warning that advertising-led search engines would be biased against the true needs of consumers.
But their idealism was coshed by the dotcom crash of 2000-01, which forced them to turn a profit.” Is Google an Evil Genius?; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 19, 2019.