hari-kari
[ hahr-ee-kahr-ee, har-ee-kar-ee ]
/ ˈhɑr iˈkɑr i, ˈhær iˈkær i /
noun
a variant of hara-kiri.
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Words nearby hari-kari
Hargreaves, haricot, haricot vert, Haridwar, Harijan, hari-kari, Haringey, harira, Hari Rud, Harishchandra, harissa
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Example sentences from the Web for hari-kari
Since that I arrivee here much peoples aska me about hari-kari.
The Hari-kari, or happy dispatch, is still more incomprehensible.
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things|Edmund Fillingham KingI say him, "No be 'fended," and proposee him hari-kari for--how you call--satisfaction.
And it does no good to tell her that hari-kari is a Japanese or Chinese trick.
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British Dictionary definitions for hari-kari
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