rope-ripe

adjective2

1. •
   (no longer used) Of a person: deserving of being hanged.

   • 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. — 1579
2. •
   (no longer used) Of an action: punishable by being hanged.

   • Lord, hovv you roule in your rope-ripe termes. — 1611