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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lynch/lɪntʃ/

▶verb (of a group) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.

– derivatives
lyncher noun.

– origin C19: from Lynch's law, named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia c.1780.

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