necktie party

noun

, Older Slang.

1. a lynching or other execution by hanging.

Word History and Origins

Origin of necktie party¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Whenever Emmett heard that locals were planning to throw a “necktie party,” he would rush out to try to stop it.

From Literature

It was his great-grandfather Louis Dondino who drove a truck around the town of Duluth on June 15, 1920, and rounded up residents to attend what some in the crowd were calling “a necktie party.”

From Los Angeles Times

His great-grandfather, Louis Dundino, helped incite the riots when he drove a truck through Duluth, yelling for people to go to “the necktie party.”

From Washington Times

Captain Murray remarked, “Don’t look much like a necktie party to me.”

From Literature

It was certainly a very novel sight to me, and I thought it strange that the citizens of Dodge City had not formed a necktie party for the entertainment of the whole party of savages, for they were well aware of the characters of their guests and well acquainted with the amount of crime and rascality they had perpetrated almost within view of the town itself.

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