hogtie

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#5. 4 - Fri Apr 17, 2009 3: 48 PM EDT

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  1. transitive verb To tie together the feet or legs of.
  2. transitive verb Informal To impede or disrupt in movement or action. See Synonyms at hamper1.

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  • Smart management and buy-outs have positioned AgFeed to hogtie an increasing share of China's pork market, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates to be worth $32 billion per year. —  GuruFocus Updates
  • We must have the courage to finally break away from the blatantly biased, Muslim supporting UN, who have done their best to hogtie the Western nations in their efforts to defend themselves from this scourge of Muslim piracy, and who only seem concerned with the rights of the criminal pirates. —  Stop The ACLU
  • We Are One celebration, during which gay Bishop Gene Robinson will hogtie Rick Warren to a post and Tiger Woods will pelt Republican senate offices with golf balls. —  Daily Kos
  • We should also demand that bank credit card and rates and bank mortgage interest rates be cut in half before any bailout of the top players … The Bush gangsters just want to hogtie Obama for 2009 … —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • By now, he could blindfold and hogtie himself, and he'd still make it to the Gate Room without even breaking a sweat. —  Wraithbait
 

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