"pongee stick" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pongee sticks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pongee stick (plural pongee sticks)
  1. A thin, sharpened bamboo sliver positioned at an angle to impale the victim.
    Sense id: en-pongee_stick-en-noun-7C6o--3Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2008, Stephen King, Salem's Lot",
          "text": "Fear that you might step on a pongee stick and see your foot swell up like some noxious green balloon, fear that some kid in black p. j.'s whose name you couldn't even fit in your mouth might blow your head off with a Russian rifle, fear that you might draw a Crazy Jake on patrol that might want you to blow up everyone in a village where the Cong had been a week before.",
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          "ref": "2016, Joe Duran, Silent Heroes: One Soldier’s Story, page 50",
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