Definition of "garrotters" [garrotters]

• Plural form of garrotter. (noun)

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• "No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters."
• "Even in later-nineteenth-century Britain there were epidemics of robbery by single men or by men in couples, the “garrotters” of the sixties, for example, who assaulted suddenly from behind and seized the watch and pocket-book."
• "The Duke shook hands with him, and made a little bow, and said something about the garrotters, which Phineas, in his confusion, did not quite understand."