Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lynches or takes part in a lynching.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who assists in lynching.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
lynches .
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Examples
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They mobilized all the machinery of modern oppression: taxes, city ordinances, licences, state laws, municipal regulations, wholesale police arrests and, of course, the peculiarly Southern method of the mob and the lyncher.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Immediately I felt it in the roll of the tires to pitted concrete: I was headed back to the Delta, King cotton, land of the lyncher, the black man, the blues.
For A Day 2009
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Bill O'Reilly is the lyncher-in-chief at FOX News.
REMEMBRANCE OF McCain's PAST News from Mad Plato 2008
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Bill O'Reilly is the lyncher-in-chief at FOX News.
Archive 2008-02-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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On July 22, at a Toronto rally sponsored by the Canadian Peace Alliance, there were Hezbollah flags, strapping young men in Hezbollah T-shirts, Nasrallah's fat, stupid face in placard-sized photographs, and pictures of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denier and lyncher of homosexuals.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Besides, one critic wrote, “There are few, if any, cases on record in which happy couples have become separated because the husband was an acknowledged lyncher.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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The father of this model republican is a former serial lyncher if not a Ku Klux Klan wizard.
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Besides, one critic wrote, “There are few, if any, cases on record in which happy couples have become separated because the husband was an acknowledged lyncher.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Besides, one critic wrote, “There are few, if any, cases on record in which happy couples have become separated because the husband was an acknowledged lyncher.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Pam also has contact info for the "Pro-lynching Southern Six," as well as pictures, including a Photo Postcard from the early 1900's that features a lyncher at the scene of his crime.
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