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harikari

ha·ri·kari

uncommon

noun

1.

ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society

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Origin

Corrupted from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), literally "belly-cutting".

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