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Gallows noun - An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.
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As a main character is the Lord High Executioner, and much of the plot revolves around an execution, quite a bit of it is literal gallows humor.
Source: Theatre / The Mikado - Watchmen has quite a bit of gallows humor.
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Gallows Humor: The Congress engages in a bit of this before signing the Declaration, and thereby committing treason, for which they very well could end up on a gallows.Franklin: We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Source: Theatre / 1776
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