halter-sack
English
Alternative forms
haltersack
Noun
halter-sack (plural halter-sacks)
- (obsolete, derogatory) Someone fit to be hanged i.e. a scoundrel.
- 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
- Away! you halter-sack!
References
- “halter-sack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.