Guillotine (disambiguation)
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A guillotine is a device for carrying out executions by decapitation, named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Guillotine or Guillotines may also refer to:
- Guillotine, a parliamentary procedure used to set finite debating times for a particular bill or to bring protracted debates to a close, see Cloture
- Guillotine choke, a martial arts chokehold
- Guillotine (wrestling), a spinal lock. Also known as the twister in many martial arts as to not cause confusion with the guillotine choke
- Guillotine (game), a card game
- Guillotine (magic trick), a magic trick where it appears that a blade of a guillotine passes through a person's neck without harming him/her
- Guillotine press-up, where the chest, head, and neck are lowered below the plane of the hands
- Guillotine (band) an Indian Metal band
- Guillotine (comics) a fictional character from Marvel comics
Media
- Guillotine (compilation album), a 1978 New Wave compilation album
- Guillotine (British India album), 2007
- Guillotine (Circle album), 2003
- The Guillotines, 2012 Chinese film
Cutting devices
- Guillotine (metalwork)
- Paper guillotine, another name for a paper cutter
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