[Jabba the Nutt]

Elsie, you’re making poor arguments. Lynching doesn’t require a rope.

[Elsie]

Lynching doesn’t require a rope.

True, but that's the way it is used MOST of the time. 

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lynch

linCH/

verb

verb: lynch; 3rd person present: lynches; past tense: lynched; past participle: lynched; gerund or present participle: lynching; noun: lynching; plural noun: lynchings

1. (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

   synonyms:

   execute illegally, hang, kill; informalstring up "he was lynched by the mob"

Origin

 

mid 19th century: from Lynch's law, early form of lynch law ‘the practice of killing an alleged criminal by lynching,’ named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia circa 1780.

 

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• www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lynch

   

   

  to kill (someone) illegally as punishment for a crime. Full Definition of LYNCH. transitive verb. : to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal ...

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• Lynch | Define Lynch at Dictionary.com

  dictionary.reference.com/browse/lynch

   

  to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority. Origin Expand. 1825-1835. 1825-35, Americanism; v. use of lynch in lynch law.