Cap
Cap noun - A small mass containing medicine to be taken orally.
Piston
Piston noun - Mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion.
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: "Mother Redcap" (two electrocution traps), "Satan's Chimney" (a piston that crushes its victims), "The Coonskin Cap" (a constricting flak jacket that suffocates the wearer) and "The Grinning Man" (a bathtub mounted on a trapdoor that drowns the victim in a tank below).
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