Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ready for hanging.
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Examples
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No merchant seamen these but brethren of the coast, freebooters who were gallows-ripe.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898
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Jourdan himself remains unchanged; gets loose again as one not yet gallows-ripe; nay, as we transciently discern from the distance, is 'carried in triumph through the cities of the South.'
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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