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English
Noun
halter-sack (plural halter-sacks)
- (obsolete, derogatory) Someone fit to be hanged; a scoundrel.
1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:Away! you halter-sack!