Coordinate term: burn phone

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless. One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished.

Words cannot picture her; but all men know That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought Three centuries and threescore years ago

I can't believe it. You cold-cocked the big stud. He blindsided and cold-cocked him, Greer said proudly.