string up

string up
a) To kill by hanging, especially to lynch.

Id string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.

b) To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.

After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddams palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.


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