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Meaning of stretch rope | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To be executed by hanging.

US, dated, slang

Examples

“It don't never rain in this damned country and you'll stop lead or stretch rope if you keeps shootin' cattle.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

stretch the envelope stretch the long bow stretch the point stretch the rules stretch the truth stretch thin

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