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penalties

/ˈpɛnəltiz/ noun B2
  1. A penalty shootout. (informal)
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“We are before our time, and suffer the usual penalties.
The Valley of Fear, p. 8 · C1
It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 70 · B2

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