extreme prejudice
Meanings
noun
- Lethal force, applied extrajudicially with the intent to kill.
- Severe treatment.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see extreme, prejudice.
Word forms
Etymology
From the longer phrase terminate with extreme prejudice, popularized by the film Apocalypse Now (1979), but used earlier jokingly as CIA jargon.
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