Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

necktie party

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables: neck-tie -par-ty
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An execution by hanging, especially a lynching.

American usage; Dated

Example Sentences

""I expect I'll have an invite to a necktie-party some day. . . . I'm always afraid the wrong necktie will be mine. Were you ever lynched?""
"I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party."
"One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: "It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang me.""
"Last week, my 17-year-old son and I went to see the movie True Grit. . . . A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows. The necktie party is followed by shootings, stabbings and a smorgasbord of violence."

Usage

American usage
Dated

Inflected Forms

necktie parties (plural) necktie-party (alternative)

Questions

What does necktie party mean?: An execution by hanging, especially a lynching.

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