A mob of indignant doctors beat and butchered a suspected thief to death at a medical college in Calcutta over the weekend in what appears to be the latest case of vigilante justice gone batshit crazy in India.

The vicious attack unfolded Sunday when a team of junior doctors allegedly swarmed a man suspected of stealing a pair of cellphones, according to reports. They dragged the 30-year-old to a room inside the hospital, tied him to a pillar and beat him to death. But apparently that wasn’t enough for the seething physicians, who also made sure to slash the suspect’s penis with a razor.

The gruesome outpatient procedure captured international attention, but what captured ours was the quirky, idiosyncratic catchphrase that kept popping up in India’s newspaper headlines.

“Alleged Cellphone Thief Bobbitised, Killed by Kolkata MBBS Students,” wrote India Express.

“Doctors Bobbitise, Beat and Kill a Suspected Thief in Bengal,” chimed India Today.

“Thief Lynched, Allegedly Bobbitised by Junior Doctors in Bengal,” reported IBN Live.

“Mobile Thief Bobbitised by Junior Medics,” read The Free Press Journal of India.

Lorena Bobbitt hacked her husband John's penis off with a kitchen knife in 1993, in the chop heard round the world. Twenty years later, "Bobbitise" has become a popular verb in India used describe genital-vengence attacks.

Bobbitised? It means exactly what you think it does. Indians have adopted America’s most infamous case of wife-on-husband de-junking—Lorena Bobbitt’s 1993 tour de force—and turned it into a stand-alone verb. In a country with 1.2 billion people and a penchant for mob castrations, there’s so much bobbitising going on that they even have a Hindi translation for the word, and the practice is the subject of robust debate on Quora. To get a sense of how huge Bobbitising is in India, here’s a sample from the steady stream of unsettling recent newspapers stories, with actual headlines:

Just this week, Ranka Dalai, who has a history of “manhandling and misbehaving,” reportedly tried to grope a man’s wife in the village of Baiganbadipalli. So the couple allegedly hid in some bushes near the village pond and sprung on Dalai in the middle of the night. The husband held the man by the neck while the wife slashed his genitals. But Dalai insists he’s not to blame. “I am being victimized by them,” he told reporters from his hospital bed.

A tantric healer from Madhepura allegedly attacked his ill niece in June after telling the girl’s mother she was “under the influence of evil forces.” Subsequently, according to the Bihar Times, the man “outraged her modesty notwithstanding her repeated protests.” The next night, the girl showed up at her uncle’s house and castrated him.

In March 2012, Ram Briksh Mahto, a 35-year-old man from Nawada, was allegedly castrated by a mother of two children “under mysterious circumstances.” However, a superintendent at the local hospital hinted, “Bobbitisation was possible only on an erect penis.”

A widow from Allahabad allegedly stoned her 30-year-old lover to the point of unconsciousness after she found out he was cheating on her in September 2010. She butchered his genitals with a knife, then started sobbing. The man later died.

Rajesh Kumar wouldn’t stop sleeping with another man’s wife, despite the woman’s husband, brothers and two other accomplices threatening him with “dire consequences.” Later, the cuckolded husband and his posse broke into Kumar’s home in Loni, stabbed him in the stomach and face and cut off his penis.

On the pretext of repaying a loan, three drunk men from the village of Bhalki lured a moneylender to a farmhouse and cut off his penis for kicks. They were later arrested.

A woman in Agra castrated her husband following a dispute in May. The woman’s father and uncle lent a hand in the gruesome attack.

Would-be rapist Naudip Yadav messed with the wrong middle-aged woman in Lahoria. The man barged into her home in September 2013 hell-bent on violating her. But before he could, the woman cut off his junk and called the cops.

In April, a traveling 22-year-old man was allegedly ambushed by a group of men in Ludhiana, who chopped off the victim’s penis and right hand. “It appears the victim’s genitals were clinically removed,” one cop told the Ludhiana Tribune.

Dentist Syeeda Ameena allegedly lured an ex-boyfriend to her clinic, slipped him a roofie and then sliced his member with a blade when he was knocked out. Later, she rushed the screaming, bleeding man to a hospital and fled the scene.

During a heated argument with his wife in September, a Bihar husband whacked off his own penis in a wild fit of rage. ”The man was upset for some time for having only two daughters, and repeatedly taunting his wife for not bearing a male child,” a relative told cops. “This led to a dispute between them.”