Despite English being my native language, I grew up speaking Spanish and my English isn’t that good. I constantly forget the meanings of phrases or don’t understand them.
I have a sister named Lena (14F). Her on-again, off-again “friend” Ashlyn(14F) received a note on her locker reading “HANG DEAD” and showed people, including Lena. Is this a threat to hang herself or something?
Maybe they misunderstood “hang ten?” Which is a slang term referring to surfing (meaning to stand on the edge of your board and hang your toes off).
“Hang dead” isn’t really slang, and it means to kill someone by hanging. You might hear it said in a Western.
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In this context, do you think it means “I will kill you by hanging”? How would you use “hang dead” in a sentence?
“We’re gonna catch that dirty, rotten, cattle-thieving S.O.B. and he’ll hang dead for what he done!”
thanks!! if used with just “hang dead”, is it telling someone to hang dead??
If English isn’t the primary language of the person who wrote it, they could have meant “kill yourself.” But I can only guess what their intentions were.