table-turning

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table-turning (countable and uncountable, plural table-turnings)

  1. (parapsychology) The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits.
    Synonym: table-tipping
  2. (idiomatic) The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge.
    • 2005, David Keen, Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone, page 62:
      Fantasies of table-turning and revenge seem to be commonplace in history; but war gives extra space for their enactment, and widespread weaponry also makes them more likely to be lethal []

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