From Guy Fawkes, who took part in the failed plot to blow up parliament in 1605 and who was sentenced to being hanged, drawn, and quartered.

Guy Fawkes (plural Guy Fawkeses)

1. An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is hanged as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.

   Synonyms: guy

Guy Fawkes (Guy Fawkeses, present participle Guy Fawkesing; simple past and past participle Guy Fawkesed)

1. (intransitive) To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
2. (ambitransitive) To blow up a building as an act of political sabotage.
   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC ↗:

     I could be at least a messenger to the higher-ups who'd be busy Guy-Fawkesing the Drake Hotel or the Palmer House – because it was that to Eddie Dawson, hauling up gunpowder in the tunnels.

3. (transitive) To execute by hanging.