English Dictionary

cackle-bladder

/ˈkækəlˌblædə(ɹ)/

noun

A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.

He accidentally punctured the cackle-bladder during the performance.

意味（1）

A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.

It tells you how they work on the mark's own larcenous cravings for a killing, how they build him up to betting his entire stake — and then put the chill on via the cackle bladder routine, a prop murder, so named because originally the corpse bit on a chicken bladder and drenched himself in chicken blood.