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crackrope

crackrope is the alternative form of crack-rope.

Meaning of crack-rope

Noun

crack-rope (plural crack-ropes)

  1. (obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird.
    • Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell.
      Carisophus. Handsomely, thou crack-rope?1564, Richard Edwardes, Damon and Pythias; republished in King, Ros, editor, The Works of Richard Edwards, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, page 153

Forms of crackrope

pluralcrackropes

Questions about crackrope

What is crackrope the alternative form of?
Crackrope is the alternative form of crack-rope.

Words near crackrope in the dictionary

  1. crackpottery
  2. crackpottier
  3. crackpottiest
  4. crackpotty
  5. crackproof
  6. crackrope
  7. crackropes
  8. cracks
  9. cracks a book
  10. cracks a crust
  11. cracks a fat

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