(thing) by stienman Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:28:25
A punishment given only as a legal formality.

i.e. She didn't know that torturing, murdering, and cooking her chidren to feed to the PTA was illegal, so we gave her 40 lashes with a wet noodle so no one else would go out and do it.
I like it!

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