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A child's sucking of his teeth, known classically as a Bajan chupse, when done in response to a parent's order to do something...

1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis

He often spoke of his methods as political, that he was fighting racial oppression and countering the injustice of the Drug War. His resistance to the anti-meth efforts and institutions was hypercognized, carefully considered, and successful.