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Strait
strait and narrow
Strait of Calais
Strait of Dover
Strait of Georgia
Strait of Gibraltar
Strait of Hormuz
Strait of Magellan
Strait of Messina
Strait of Ormuz
Strait-handed
Strait-jacket
Strait-laced
Strait-waistcoat
Straiten
straitened
-- straitjacket --
straitlaced
Straitly
Straitness
straits
Strake
Strale
Stram
Stramash
Stramazoun
Stramineous
Stramonium
Stramony
Strand
Strand birds
Strand plover
strand wolf

straitjacket

Noun1.straitjacket - anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
2.straitjacket - a jacket-like garment used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
Synonyms: straightjacket
Oregon boat, anchor, bilbo, bind, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chain, chains, collar, cuffs, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, gag, gyve, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuff, handcuffs, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hopple, hopples, irons, lash, leading strings, leash, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, peg down, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, put in irons, reins, restrain, restraint, restraints, rope, secure, shackle, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, stranglehold, strap, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, trammels, yoke

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