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单词 slip-halter
释义

slip-halter

See also: sliphalter

English

Alternative forms

  • sliphalter

Etymology

slip + halter

Noun

slip-halter (plural slip-halters)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
    • 1659, Lodge, Thomas; Greene, Robert, Lady Alimony, act 4, scene 6; republished in Hazlitt, William Carew, editor, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, volume 14, New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1964:
      Why, you whoreson rogue! where's my suit? As I hope for mercy, I am half-persuaded that this slip-halter has pawned my clothes.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:gallows bird
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