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单词 hangman
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hangman

(hæŋmæn)
Word forms: plural hangmen
countable noun
A hangman is a man whose job is to execute people by hanging them.

hangman in British English

(ˈhæŋmən)
nounWord forms: plural -men
an official who carries out a sentence of hanging on condemned criminals

hangman in American English

(ˈhæŋmən)
nounWord forms: plural ˈhangmen (ˈhæŋmən)
an executioner who hangs criminals condemned to death

Examples of 'hangman' in a sentence
hangman

The feeling is strongest in the cells where condemned men and women spent their last hours waiting for the hangman's noose.
The Sun (2016)
The feeling is strongest in the cells where condemned men and women spent their lasthours waiting for the hangman's noose.
The Sun (2016)
The hangman's noose hangs behind him.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The hangman's noose can be returned to the drawer.
The Sun (2010)
He is then blindfolded and has a hangman's noose placed around his neck.
The Sun (2009)
Anything less than victory and the hangman's noose could tighten.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
So asking for their support was a little bit like asking the doomed man to help tighten the knot on the hangman's noose.
Geoffrey A. Moore LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION (2002)
By the time he died on a hangman's rope in 2006 he had committed thousands more.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The benefits system is supposed to be a safety net, not a hangman's noose.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He always knew that when he was caught he would face the hangman - it's the way they do things in those parts.
The Sun (2007)

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