Shawinigan Handshake is the epithet given to a chokehold executed on February 15, 1996 by Jean Chrétien, then Prime Minister of Canada, on anti-poverty protester Bill Clennett. The phrase comes from Chrétien's birthplace of Shawinigan, Quebec, as the former prime minister often styled himself the "little guy from Shawinigan".
"Yesterday I won the fucking lottery so I shat on my bosses desk then gave him the Shawinigan Handshake."
"Margret is soooooo annoying during meetings. Sometimes I just want to give her the ole' Shawinigan Handshake."
"Margret is soooooo annoying during meetings. Sometimes I just want to give her the ole' Shawinigan Handshake."
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A color that describes a feeling; a color made up by the singer Khalid; not green.
Described as "purple but like not purple" "with some pink in it" -Khalid
Described as "purple but like not purple" "with some pink in it" -Khalid
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Get the sawing logs mug.A person who is a part of the select (and often widely hated) cult fanbase of the Saw movie series.
In other words, as a Trekkie is to Star Trek, a Sawist is to the Saw films.
Often hated for being fans of a franchise which some argue has worn out is welcome with goriness and sequels, and often imagined to be 'sick' for liking a series that's been labeled 'torture porn', Sawists are a rather rare breed.
As in, if you go out on the streets and ask people, you'll probably find lots of fans of Star Wars, lots of fans of Star Trek, lot of fans of Harry Potter, et cetera, but only now and then do you find a particularly devout Saw fan, or Sawist. They're an interesting bunch, that's for sure.
Sawists can go into categories, the most prominent being 'Gordonites', the fans that believe Dr. Gordon from the first Saw lived after cutting off his foot and crawling away. They usually have all sorts of theories about it about the subject causes much flame wars on boards such as IMDb.
In other words, as a Trekkie is to Star Trek, a Sawist is to the Saw films.
Often hated for being fans of a franchise which some argue has worn out is welcome with goriness and sequels, and often imagined to be 'sick' for liking a series that's been labeled 'torture porn', Sawists are a rather rare breed.
As in, if you go out on the streets and ask people, you'll probably find lots of fans of Star Wars, lots of fans of Star Trek, lot of fans of Harry Potter, et cetera, but only now and then do you find a particularly devout Saw fan, or Sawist. They're an interesting bunch, that's for sure.
Sawists can go into categories, the most prominent being 'Gordonites', the fans that believe Dr. Gordon from the first Saw lived after cutting off his foot and crawling away. They usually have all sorts of theories about it about the subject causes much flame wars on boards such as IMDb.
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