rope-ripe

• roperipe

rope +‎ ripe

rope-ripe (comparative more rope-ripe, superlative most rope-ripe)

1. (obsolete, of people) Deserving of being hanged.
   • 1579, Churchyard, Thomas, “A Pirates Tragedie”, in A General Rehearsall of Warres, called Churchyard's Choise‎:

     Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.

   • 2016, Shea, J. A.; Yachnin, Paul, “The Well-Hung Shrew”, in Bruckner, Lynne; Brayton, Dan, editors, Ecocritical Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 120:

     As we argued already, Shakespeare's representation of the rope-ripe shrew likely was inspired by abundant accounts of the well-hanged and well-hung shrewmouse.

2. (obsolete, of actions) Punishable by being hanged.
   • 1553, Wilson, Thomas, The Arte of Rhetorique‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1909, page 107:

     Therefore the reporting of our tale, may ſone appere plain if we firſt expreſſe our minde in plaine words, and not ſeeke theſe roperipe termes, which betraie rather a foole, then commende a wiſe man […]

   • 1611, Chapman, George, May Day‎, act 3, scene 1, page 29:

     Lord, how you roule in your rope-ripe termes.

• hangworthy, gallows-ripe; See also Thesaurus:hangworthy