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Definition of Lynch
Lynch

To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Related Definitions:
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Lynch Quotations

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Jerry Garcia

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
Paul Samuelson

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Ray Charles

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
Sting

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.
Danny Elfman

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
Martin Short

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
Robyn Hitchcock

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern

Lynch Translations

lynch in French is lyncher
lynch in German is lynchen
lynch in Italian is linciare
lynch in Norwegian is lynsje
lynch in Spanish is linchar
lynch in Swedish is lyncha


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