Definition of "garotters" [garotters]

• Plural form of garotter. (noun)

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• "It had been bought about a month since — in consequence of some commotion about garotters which had just then taken place."
• "He had carried the life-preserver now produced with him because it had once before been necessary for him to attack garotters in the street."
• "Laurence Fitzgibbon says that it was all planned — that the garotters were hired, but unfortunately two policemen turned up at the moment, so the men were taken."