get medieval

ˌɡɛt ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl

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#1·14h ago

(intransitive, chiefly, US, informal) To become sadistically torturous, especially due to vengeful spite.

I got medieval on both their asses, packed all the shit I could possibly carry, and caught a cab to my sister's place near 135th and 5th Avenue in Harlem.

Origin: From get + medieval; originally merely collocational when attested in the dialogue of the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, but the collocation took on the function of a phrasal verb, entering the lexicon as a term for torturing severely, after it went viral as a consequence of the film's popularity. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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