Based on the
Medieval machines used to
torture people
VERB:
1. the act of telling a long boring story in which you are inflicting pain on the listeners
2. the act of listening to a long boring story in which pain is being
inflicted on you
ADJECTIVE:
3. Describing an awful situation
I torture
racked the bartender last night when I kept insisting that he
speak French to me.
That story about her
grandmother's gravy recipe was such a torture rack.