Usually means: Compulsion overpowering ability to resist.
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  1. irresistible impulse: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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(Note: See irresistible_impulses as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Irresistible impulse)

noun:  In criminal law, irresistible impulse is a defense by excuse, in this case some sort of insanity, in which the defendant argues that they should not be held criminally liable for their actions that broke the law, because they could not control those actions, even if they knew them to be wrong.

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