slip-halter
nounEtymology From slip + halter.
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Obsolete Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
- Why, you whoreson rogue! where's my suit? As I hope for mercy, I am half-persuaded that this slip-halter has pawned my clothes.1659, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, Lady Alimony, act 4, scene 6; republished in Hazlitt, William Carew, editor, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, volume 14, New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1964: