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(noun) - In the days when executions were public in England, large crowds generally gathered at the scene of the gibbet, and a rare trade was done in food, drink, and amusement. London's principal place of execution was Tyburn, which is in the parish of Paddington.
--Edwin Radford's Encyclopædia of Phrases and Origins, 1945
January 14, 2018