machete
大刀,大砍刀,大刀阔斧,砍刀
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- : a large heavy knife used especially in Latin American countries in cutting sugarcane and clearing underbrush and as a weapon.
- : a tarpon, Elops affinis, of the eastern Pacific Ocean, having an elongated, compressed body.
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Examples
You punched that girl and then answered the door with a fricking machete, man.
The documents said Ramos’s hands were bound and that one defendant told police he repeatedly struck the teen with a machete.
Most of those laborers were involved in tasks considered hazardous such as wielding machetes, carrying heavy loads or working with pesticides, according to the report.
He got his picture coming out of the bush, the jungle, in Ecuador with the machete.
Prosecutors accused one of the managers of brandishing a club and machete to threaten workers who were attempting to organize a union.
Twitter users posted pictures of the scene and claimed a man had been seen with a machete.
Armed with an ax or a machete, he stops incoming cars for questioning: Who are they?
In one recent case, he said a man accused of kidnapping was hung from an iron bar and flogged with a machete.
The path for our group of six is being carved through tangles of vines and vegetation one machete hack at a time.
Robert Rodriguez grindhouse gore-fest, Machete Kills, slices and dices its way into theaters on Oct. 11.
He dug a grave with his machete among the smoking ruins of the hacienda, in which he laid his brother's body.
Millions of people from Texas to Patagonia have long found the machete an ever-ready tool.
He seized the lance, and, with it and the machete, retired to the convent.
To men of to-day this jungle would have been impenetrable, except by the incessant use of axe or machete.
The Ulleran whirled, swinging a blade somewhere between a big butcherknife and a small machete.