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Peg out [1] To die Slang: British. Also means 'to stop working' Peppered To be shot to death Slang Usually refers to being shot multiple times (i.e. peppered with bullet holes). Perish Synonym for death Neutral Pop one's clogs [2] To die Humorous, [1] Informal [2] British. "Pop" is English slang for "pawn."
Long-drop hanging is the method of carrying out judicial capital punishment on civilians in Japan, as in the cases of Norio Nagayama, [68] Mamoru Takuma, [69] and Tsutomu Miyazaki. [70] In 2018 Shoko Asahara and several of his cult members were hanged for committing the 1995 sarin gas attack.
The story was proposed by 1904 as the origin of the word "lynch". [16] It is dismissed by etymologists, both because of the distance in time and place from the alleged event to the word's later emergence, and because the incident did not constitute a lynching in the modern sense. [16] [9]
My 4-year-old, never one to sit out of the spotlight, began pulling her arm and demanding her attention. She looked down, giggled, and patted his head. Kids don't hold biases
Two guys walk into a bar. The third one ducked. A photon goes to the airport. The ticket agent asks if there's any luggage to check. The photon replies, “No, I'm traveling light.”
DEAN: It's a limited hang out. EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out. PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately. Before this exchange, the discussion captures Nixon outlining to Dean the content of a report that Dean would create, laying out a misleading view of the role of the White House ...
As Craig Melvin steps into his new role as co-anchor of Today, his demanding work schedule is about to become even more hectic.But luckily he has a very calming hobby that brings him a little ...
The word "hoist" here is the past participle of the now-archaic verb hoise (since Shakespeare's time, hoist has become the present tense of the verb, with hoisted the past participle), and carries the meaning "to lift and remove". [18]