pongee stick

English

Noun

pongee stick (plural pongee sticks)

1. A thin, sharpened bamboo sliver positioned at an angle to impale the victim.
   • 2007, Thorn Kief Hillsbery, What We Do Is Secret, →ISBN, page 8:

     And likewise we did a sharpened bamboo pongee stick palisade with rat poison on the tips nine steps times two above the ninth-floor landing in honor of that English band 999.

   • 2008, Stephen King, Salem's Lot, →ISBN:

     Fear that you might step on a pongee stick and see your foot swell up like some noxious green balloon, fear that some kid in black p. j.'s whose name you couldn't even fit in your mouth might blow your head off with a Russian rifle, fear that you might draw a Crazy Jake on patrol that might want you to blow up everyone in a village where the Cong had been a week before.

   • 2016, Joe Duran, Silent Heroes: One Soldier’s Story, →ISBN, page 50:

     The trail with its wide grassy areas was the perfect spot for pongee sticks. Lou looked up from the prone position and focused on a pongee stick right before his eyes, and then he noticed another, then another, and another.