string up

Verb

string up (third-person singular simple present strings up, present participle stringing up, simple past and past participle strung up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.
   • I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.1911, Fergus Hume, chapter 8, in Red Money
   • After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.2003 February 17, J. Barry, E. Thomas, “Boots, Bytes and Bombs”, in Newsweek

   Synonyms:

   hang, scrag, forhang, Guy Fawkes, ketch, send to the scaffold, stretch, truss, tuck up

2. (idiomatic, intransitive, obsolete) To die by hanging.
   • "And now, my friend," said the Captain, "let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree."1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 13, in Rob Roy

   Synonyms:

   hang, swing, dance on a rope, dance on nothing, dance the hempen jig, dance the Tyburn jig, dance upon nothing, dangle, ride a horse foaled by an acorn, stretch hemp

3. (idiomatic, transitive) To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
   • He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him.2007 March 7, Brigid Schulte, “Escaping a Painful Past To Find a Shaky Future”, in Washington Post, retrieved 24 Jan 2009
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To concatenate; to link in a line.
   • to string up a sentence