In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
LADDISH
Etymology
Adjective
laddish (comparative more laddish, superlative most laddish)
(British) Like a stereotypical Jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.
Source: Wiktionary
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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