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slip-halters

slip-halters is the plural of slip-halter.

Meaning of slip-halter

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

Questions about slip-halters

What is slip-halters the plural of?
Slip-halters is the plural of slip-halter.

Words near slip-halters in the dictionary

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

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