dynamite

dynamite charge

An encouragement to a divided jury to come to a verdict. It is also known as the "Allen charge" because such a tactic was employed for the deadlocked jury in the 1896 case Allen v. United States. Come on, let's give the jury a dynamite charge, in the hopes of getting all the jurors to reach a consensus.

dynamite

1. n. anything potentially powerful: a drug, news, a person. The story about the scandal was dynamite and kept selling papers for a month.

2. mod. excellent; powerful. I want some more of your dynamite enchiladas, please.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
SoŇA	-	Czech, Slovak
Audovacar	-	Ancient Germanic
Crawford	KRAW-fərd	English
Aarthi	-	Tamil
Bryn	BRIN	Welsh, English
Desiderata	-	Late Roman