Definition of "nooses" []

• Plural form of noose. (noun)

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• "Well, really, I mean, you take away the hoods and nooses from the KKK and what are you left with?"
• "The incident capped months of racial unrest after three white students hung nooses from a shade tree at the high school after black students asked permission to sit under it."
• "The fight was the culmination of a series of racial incidents starting when whites responded to black students sitting under the "white tree" at their school by hanging three nooses from the tree."