slip-halter

noun

Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.

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Meanings

nounslip-halter (plural slip-halters)

plural slip-halters · alternative sliphalter

  1. obsoleteSomeone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.

    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.

    1659, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, 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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
crack-hempgallows birdhangdog

Origin

From slip + halter.

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APA

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Chicago

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