Anagrams of: SHOOTINGSTICK

• a short stout club used primarily by policemen

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism

• giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

• The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.

• To play such a shot.

• To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.

• To throw something out.

• To spit.

• a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

• the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)

• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• disable by cutting the hock

• so tight as to cling to the skin

• a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes

• a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

• a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook

• pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

• large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

• (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised