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necktie party en · NOUN

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1. (US, dated, idiomatic) An execution by hanging, especially a lynching.
   • "I expect I'll have an invite to a necktie-party some day. . . . I'm always afraid the wrong necktie will be mine. Were you ever lynched?" 1904, B. M. Bower, “The Lamb”, in The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories:
   • I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party. 1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Texas Ranger:
   • Last week, my 17-year-old son and I went to see the movie True Grit. . . . A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows. The necktie party is followed by shootings, stabbings and a smorgasbord of violence. 2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 30 Jun 2011:
   • One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: "It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang me." 1958 July 21, “Foreign Relations: Back from Russia”, in Time:

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