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A municipality, the capital and largest city of Sweden; county seat of Stockholm County, Sweden. examples
(metonymically) The Swedish government. examples
A county of Sweden. examples
third-person singular simple present Stockholms, present participle Stockholming, simple past and past participle Stockholmed
To suffer from Stockholm syndrome; to form an emotional bond or identification with one's captor or oppressor, also, to form such a bond with one's victim. quotations examples
A negotiator must never Stockholm with hostages.
1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave
Police say Stockholming is good, because the offender also identifies with the hostage, and it's much easier to hurt someone you don't know than someone you do.
2006, Tom Philbin, Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime, page 208
There's no need for any kind of racist opposition because we are now Stockholmed to the point where we will begin to oppress ourselves if we're not careful ” ( “ The Past is Prologue , ” 25 ) .
2009, Amy Cynthia Tang, Rethinking Repetition, page 25
Then the pair were jointly “Stockholmed”, as Bristol Professor Sir Michael Berry, described it.
2011 October, K Novoselov, “Interview with Konstantin Novoselov: 2010 Nobel Prize winner for Physics”, in Engineering & Technology, volume 6, number 9