necklace
Ⅰ
verb to set fire to a car tyre that has been doused in petrol and placed around a victim's neck. An innocent sounding term for a horrid practice, usually practised black-on-black in the waning days of the white supremacist government in South Africa SOUTH AFRICA, 1986
Ⅱ ⇨ necklace; necklace of fire
noun a tyre doused or filled with petrol, placed around a victim's neck or shoulders, and set alight SOUTH AFRICA, 1985