noose

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"I think it needs to be established whether the noose was actually meant as a racist threat and whether it wasn't placed there by say a Rainbow / PUSH type organization in an effort to extort money from ISU with the threat of a lawsuit."

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  1. noun A loop formed in a rope by means of a slipknot so that it binds tighter as the rope is pulled. Also called running noose.
  2. noun A snare or trap.
  3. transitive verb To capture or hold by or as if by a noose.
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  • So he thrusts forward through the crowd as the noose is tightened around the murderer's neck. —  GUDMagazineIssue0::Spring2007
  • The sole hope I had of remaining in Gettys and escaping the noose was the man now reclining in my bed, talking in a voice that sounded ever vaguer. —  forestmage
  • Another noose was applied near the other end of the fishlike form, at the narrowest part just above the flukes. —  The Nitrogen Fix
  • Through Iran's allies in the Iraqi government, a noose has been applied around Camp Ashraf and the people living there, and is slowly tightening.
  • When you try to get your money out of the bank, you will find out that the noose is already tightening as they make it hard to get large amounts of money out. —  Latest Articles
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  1. Middle English nose, probably from Old French nos, nous, knot, from Latin nōdus; see node.

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  1. Early mod, English also nooze; origin unknown, no early record (Middle English) existing. If it existed in Middle English, it might have come from Old French *nous, nou, nod, French nœud, Languedoc nous, from Latin nodus, a knot: see node, knot.
  2. from noose, n.
 

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