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slip-halter

slip-halter noun: someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.

Noun

slip-halter (plural slip-halters)

  1. (obsolete) Someone 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

Forms of slip-halter

pluralslip-halters
alternative formsliphalter

Origin of slip-halter

From slip + halter.

Questions about slip-halter

What does slip-halter mean?
Slip-halter means someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
What part of speech is slip-halter?
Slip-halter is a noun.
What is the plural of slip-halter?
The plural of slip-halter is slip-halters.

Words near slip-halter in the dictionary

  1. slip-and-slide
  2. slip-and-slides
  3. slip-case
  4. slip-cases
  5. slip-cueing
  6. slip-halter
  7. slip-halters
  8. slip-on
  9. slip-ons
  10. slip-up
  11. slip-ups

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