slip-halter
See also: sliphalter
English
Alternative forms
- sliphalter
Etymology
slip + halter
Noun
slip-halter (plural slip-halters)
- (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.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:gallows bird