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. 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 8 Dec. 2024.

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