hara-kiri
noun/ˌhærə ˈkɪri/
/ˌhɑːrə ˈkɪri/
[uncountable] (from Japanese)- an act of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach with a sword, performed especially by the samurai in Japan in the past, to avoid losing honourWord Originmid 19th cent.: colloquial Japanese, from hara ‘belly’ + kiri ‘cutting’.
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