Guillotine (disambiguation)

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A guillotine is a device for carrying out executions by decapitation, named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Guillotine or Guillotines may also refer to:

Cutting devices

• Guillotine (metalwork)
• Paper guillotine, another name for a paper cutter
• Flying guillotine, an ancient Chinese ranged weapon

Sports

• Guillotine choke, a martial arts chokehold
• Guillotine (wrestling), a spinal lock; also known as "the twister" to avoid confusion with the guillotine choke
• Guillotine press-up, where the chest, head, and neck are lowered below the plane of the hands

Games and magic

• Guillotine (game), a card game
• Guillotine (magic trick), a magic trick where it appears that a blade of a guillotine passes through a person's neck without harming him/her

Film and comics

• The Guillotines, 2012 Chinese film
• Guillotine (character), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
• Guillotine (film), a 1924 German silent drama film

Music

• Guillotine (band), an Indian musical group
• Guillotine (British India album), 2007
• Guillotine (Circle album), 2003
• "Guillotine", a 2011 song by Death Grips
• "Guillotine", a 2016 song by Jon Bellion

Other

• Guillotine, a parliamentary procedure used to set finite debating times for a particular bill or to bring protracted debates to a close, see Cloture