A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.

The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

Alternative form of carrot and stick (more common in UK than in US)

(sociology) According to Jean Baudrillard, the excessive and formalized practice of an established system, used as a liberating strategy to disrupt the system.