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单词 lynch man
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lynch mann.

Brit. /ˈlɪn(t)ʃ man/, U.S. /ˈlɪn(t)ʃ ˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural lynch men.
Forms: also (in early use) with capital initial.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Lynch , man n.1
Etymology: < the name of Lynch (see lynch law n.) + man n.1In sense 2 perhaps after henchman n. 5b.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. A man who participates in or executes lynch law (see lynch law n.); a participant in a lynching. Now historical.Particularly associated with the extrajudicial execution of African Americans, especially that perpetrated in Southern states from the end of the American Civil War (1865) to the Civil Rights movement in the mid 20th cent.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > one who lynches
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1811 A. Ellicott in C. V. Mathews A. Ellicott (1908) 221 The Lynch-men associated for the purpose of punishing crimes in a summary way without the tedious and technical forms of our courts of justice.
1947 Negro Digest July 7/1 What sister of a Negro boy or man today does not know the family terror at the thought that some unguarded and unconscious look or gesture..may lead straight to ostracism, the faggot or the lynchman's noose!
1992 Personalist Forum 8 73 The lynchmen from the ranch will soon be at the river bank to get them.
2. A man employed by a criminal or criminal organization to inflict (typically physical) punishment on an enemy, debtor, etc.Apparently attested slightly earlier in A. K. Bond Soul Seekers, an e-book originally published in 2002.
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2004 J. Wayne Father's Duty i. 20 Tanner Harrison, lynch man for the mob? Murderer of young women who crossed the lines Gaspard drew in invisible ink?
2014 V. Steele Nadia's Revenge (e-book, accessed 29 Oct. 2020) His men were searching online databases for any trace of Nadia's lynch men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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