Green’s Dictionary of Slang

noose, the n.

marriage.

1640		Fletcher Night-Walker I i: Ye take heede A keener justice does not overtake thee, And catch you in a Nooze.
1697		E. Settle The world in the moon 28: Pal. Speed the Gallows! Thou art full ripe for a Hempen Noose, but too rotten for a Wedlock one.
1706		[T. Betterton] Amorous Widow 11: For fear she should have forc’d my Neck into her Muddy Nooze of Matrimony.
1723		Rape of the Bride 43: Our Lover’s Option was to choose / The Conjugal, ’fore t’other Noose.
1882		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 1 Apr. 2/1: Elopements are still all the rage in Ohio. Love knots are running nooses there.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 236: the noose Marriage.
1956		‘Hal Ellson’ ‘Dangerous’ in Tell Them Nothing (1956) 54: Could be you’re putting your head in the noose [...] Them kind [...] they all for getting married.