Smart little kid ... LOL
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1615618850711552000
Tweet from Thunberg today talking about being "kettled" by police. I know she is 20 years old, but still, quite a vocabulary.
I'm a native English speaker and I have never heard that term used before in my whole life. To be fair, it is apparently chiefly a British expression.
Kettle (v) (of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators or protesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration: the plan was to get as close to the protest as possible without getting kettled | (as noun kettling) : police were criticized for their use of controversial tactics such as kettling.
Now we all know this term.
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