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noun
A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes, commonly accompanied by floats and models representing monsters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any rhetorical device presenting a series of terrible results that notionally might follow from an act, instead of confining the argument to the explicit terms of any applicable law.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: law
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History
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