string up
phrasal verb
strung up; stringing up; strings up
informal
: to hang (someone) by the neck : to kill (someone) by hanging
They threatened to string him up in a tree.
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Then string up these fun Jack-o’lantern pumpkin lights, which more than 1,000 shoppers bought in the past month.
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Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
To help combat this, string up bistro lights, as Modern Glam did here.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 12 June 2023
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Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
To help combat this, string up bistro lights, as Modern Glam did here.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 12 June 2023
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“String up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20up. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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