necktie n.
1. the hangman’s noose.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 4 May 3/4: headline] neckties for three Remarkable Scenes at the Execution of a Trio of Homicidal Louisiana Negroes / A Ghastly Bit of Business. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 28 Jan. 2/2: It would not be surprising if Guiteau were to instruct his hangman in the art of applying neckties and stretching necks. | |
| Battle with the Slum 51: The time [...] when a different kind of necktie was its pride; when the boy-murderer [...] who wore it on the gallows took leave of the captain of detectives with the cheerful invitation to ‘come over to the wake.’. | |
| Black Mask Aug. III 109: Go back where you get room and board free – until they tie a necktie around your throat! | |
| Little Caesar (1932) 66: Don’t get nervous with that gat of yours or they’ll put a necktie on you. | |
| Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 809: neck tie – A hangman’s noose. | |
| (con. 1900s) Shootist 36: The great killer doesn’t die of lead poisoning or a rope necktie after all. | |
| A-Team 2 (1984) 131: Lot of folks here would love to reinstate the gallows just to give him a chance to wear the necktie. |
In compounds
1. (US) a hanging, usu. an illicit, impromptu lynching.
 | Titusville (PA) Morning Herald 10 Apr. 4: Since a Kansas vigilance committee held a neck-tie party, eight horse thieves are missing. | |
| Carson Valley News 21 June 2/4: It’s hard to leave ye, old hills, but it’s either the States or a necktie frolic for me [DA]. | |
| Western Wilds 45: He joined the Vigilantes, and had the pleasure of presiding at a ‘neck-tie sociable’ where two of the men who had robbed him were hanged. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 4 Mar. 2/1: Jack Ketch [...] has plenty of work on hand, no less than half a dozen ‘necktie parties’ being down on his list. | |
| Fitchburg Sentinel (MA) 24 Mar. 2: ‘What’s this?’” asked a benevolent resident of an Arizona town, as he came suddenly upon a necktie social in full blast.‘Just stringin up a dude,’ explained one of the party. | |
| Spectator 7 Oct. n.p.: A lynching is gracefully described as a necktie party. | |
| ‘The Little Old Sod Shanty’ in et al. Songs of the Amer. West (1968) 566: We sometimes hunted down the thief who stole from us a horse, / A little neck-tie party did the rest. | |
| ‘Alley Rats’ Smoke and Steel 20: And two of them croaked on the same day at a ‘necktie party’. | |
| Sister of the Road (1975) 201: If you want to see me this side of Hell, you had better come to Chicago before February 13th. Invitations are already out for my ‘neck tie party’. | |
| Sudden Takes the Trail 60: Ned’s afeard that when them Dumb-bell outcasts show up there’ll be a neck-tie party. | |
| ‘No Neck-Tie Party’ Songs of a Sun Lover [title]. | |
| Mad mag. Feb. 31: It’d probably be a necktie party, and he’d’ve been the only one dancing! | |
| (con. 1944) Dirty Dozen (2002) 150: Whatever the hangman was doing there, the necktie party was off. | |
| Gonif 21: While waiting for his special necktie party, President Woodrow Wilson commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. | |
| Chili 70: All I could visualize was a lynch party waiting under some tree. But no, it’s not to a necktie party he’s taking me. | |
| (con. 1930) Our Town 115: Certain images from their accounts stuck in my mind: signs posted along country roads that read necktie party at Marion. |
2. in fig. use.
| Rivethead (1992) 129: If these trucks somehow turned out to be puke-colored lemons, there was going to be one vast necktie party. |