cackle-bladder

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkækəlˌblædə(ɹ)/

Noun

A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.

Japanese Meaning

実際または模造の血液を入れた膀胱。主にスパイ活動や詐欺などの文脈で、他者に殺人や重傷への関与を誤認させるため、偽の死または怪我を装う目的で使用される装置。

What is this buttons?

During the interrogation, the agent produced a cackle-bladder to convince the witnesses they had helped conceal a murder.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

取り調べ中、工作員は血入りの小袋を取り出し、目撃者たちに自分たちが殺人を隠蔽したと信じ込ませた。

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A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.

It tells you how they work on the mark's own larcenous cravings for a killing, how they build him up to betting his entire stake — and then "put the chill on" via the "cackle bladder" routine, a prop murder, so named because originally the "corpse" bit on a chicken bladder and drenched himself in chicken blood.

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cackle-bladders

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