wagging hemp

Verb

wag hemp (third-person singular simple present wags hemp, present participle wagging hemp, simple past and past participle wagged hemp)

1. To be hanged.
   • In fact, the more I read the more I am persuaded that good Queen Bess's glorious days were more specious than spacious, and that Bess herself was a right mean queen. Look again at that bill. She even borrowed the ladder from which they were turned off! But I may be doing her an injustice. Perhaps...1927 August, Leslie Hotson, “Pirates in Parchment”, in The Atlantic

   Synonyms:

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