strange fruit

English

Noun

strange fruit (uncountable)

  1. A person who has been lynched by hanging; such people collectively.
    • 1986, Joseph Beam, “Introduction”, in In The Life:
      We speak for the brothers behind bars whose words, at the very least, must be liberated
      We speak for the strange fruit hung from trees
      We speak for the brothers who drowned in alcohol, and whose spirits were pierced by needles
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