necktie party
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[edit]necktie party (plural necktie parties)
- (US, idiomatic, dated) An execution by hanging, especially a lynching.
- 1904, B. M. Bower, “The Lamb”, in The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories:
- "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?"
- 1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Texas Ranger:
- I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party.
- 1958 July 21, “Foreign Relations: Back from Russia”, in Time:
- 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."
- 2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 30 June 2011:
- 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.