intj. (old).—Go hang! Also SNICK UP.

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  1599.  HENRY PORTER, The Two Angry Women of Abingdon, i. 1. If they be not, let them GO SNICK UP.

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  1602.  SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ii. 3. 101. We did keep time, sir, in our catches. SNECK UP!

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  1611.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, iii., 2. Let him go SNICK UP!

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  1611.  CHAPMAN, May-Day, iv. But for a paltry disguise she shall go SNICK UP.

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  c. 1609.  J. HEALEY, The Discovery of a New World, 106. I am in a great perplexity least my country women should haue any vnderstanding of this state: For if they haue, wee may goe SNICUP for any female that will bide amongst vs.

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  1630.  HEYWOOD, The Fair Maid of the West, i. [PEARSON, Works (1874), ii. 268]. Spenc. She shall not rise sir, goe, let your Master SNICK-UP.

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  1630.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, ‘The Praise of Hemp-seed.’

        A Tiburne hempen-candell will e’en cure you.
It can cure Traytors, but I hold it fit
T’apply’t ere they the treason doe commit:
Wherefore in Sparta it ycleped was
SNICKUP, which is in English Gallow-grasse.

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  1638.  FORD, The Lady’s Trial, iii. 2.

        Dost want a master? If thou dost, I’m for thee;
Else choose, and SNECK-UP!

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  1666.  Wily Beguiled [HAWKINS, The Origin of the English Drama, iii. 342]. If my mistress would be ruled by him, Sophos might GO SNICK UP.

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