Is It Curb Stomp?

Is It Curb Stomp?

A curb stomp, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb is a form of assault in which a victim's mouth is forcefully placed on a curb and then stomped from behind, causing severe injuries and sometimes death.

Is curb stomp one word?

(neologism) To stomp on someone's head, forcing it into a street curb - often while they are positioned with their teeth biting the curb. An act of curb stomping.

Why is it called curb stomping?

Curbing — sometimes called "curb stomping" or "curb checking" — was a term coined in a scene in the 1998 movie "American History X." In the film, a man is forced to lie down, open his mouth and pretend to bite the curb. A neo-Nazi skinhead then stomps on the man's head.

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