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English
Etymology
auto- + defenestration
Noun
autodefenestration (uncountable)
- (rare, nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window.
1986, “Rich Relations”, in New York Magazine, volume 19, number 18:She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.
2002, Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914:Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think.
1995, Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble:...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'
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