necklace, verb transitive

Origin:
From necklace noun.
To kill (someone) by the necklace method. Often passive.
1986 Cape Times 12 Feb.If I’m seen with this party, I’ll be necklaced in the township tonight.
1987 Drum Jan. 51It was not long after that he was Okapied on the steps of the Senate — a reminder incidentally that necklacing those in power is as old as the hills.
1987 Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) 28 June 9According to the British-born scholar, Dr Tom Lodge, the first person to be necklaced was..a town councillor in the Eastern Cape township of Kwanobuhle.
1988 Grocott’s Mail 13 May 1The charred body of a black boy who had been ‘necklaced’.
1988 P. Younghusband in Inside S. Afr. Apr. 12He once flung himself into a lynch mob at a township funeral and saved a man from being necklaced.
1990 Frontline Jan. 18Some alarmist..had warned over the SABC (where else) that the ‘comrades’ would necklace black children who attended ‘white’ schools.
1990 R. Malan in Cosmopolitan Apr. 162A mob of Wararas waylaid him on his way home from Sipho’s funeral and necklaced him — put a tyre around his neck, poured petrol on him and burnt him alive.
1992 Malan & Beckett in Guardian Weekly 3 July 7The first person to die was a woman..whose sin was a romantic involvement with a Zulu hostel dweller...A crowd cornered her..and necklaced her — burned her alive.
To kill (someone) by the necklace method. Often passive.
Derivatives:
So necklaced  participial adjective, necklacer  noun.
1986 Star 22 Apr.The ‘necklaced’ bodies of three men have been found in squatter camps on the Cape Flats.
1987 Collins & Dyan in Leadership Vol.6 No.3, 98Young militant blacks may understand how the lynch-mob mentality of the necklacers arises,..but no-one we have encountered regards the practice as being morally justified.
1987 New Nation 12 Nov. 4The wife of the necklaced Uitenhage councillor.
1993 D. Beresford in Weekly Mail & Guardian 29 Oct. 14The charred body of a necklaced woman was found in Katlehong’s Radebe section.
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