cackle-bladder
noun/ˈkækəlˌblædə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From cackle + bladder, because originally chicken blood was used.
Definitions
A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in…
A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.
- Use a cackle bladder to bite on and spit blood whether faced with a gang or a single assailant. This is often enough to dissuade would-be aggressors […].
- It's a trick con men call the cackle-bladder. You take a little bag made from a pig's bladder and fill it up with chicken blood, and keep it inside your mouth until it's time to play dead.
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