hangmannoun
uk/ˈhæŋ.mən//ˈhæŋ.mæn/us/ˈhæŋ.mən//ˈhæŋ.mæn/plural -men uk/-mən/ushangman noun (PERSON)
[ C ] a person whose job is to operate the device that kills criminals by hanging them from a rope by their necks
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hanging
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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hangman noun (GAME)
[ U ] a word game in which one player has to guess a word that the other player has thought of, by guessing the letters in it. Every time they guess a wrong letter, part of a picture of a person being hanged is drawn, and if the picture is completed the person guessing has lost.
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Children's games
- blind man's buff
- double Dutch
- follow-my-leader
- hide-and-seek
- hoopla
- hopscotch
- leapfrog
- life
- marble
- midget
- peekaboo
- piggy in the middle
- piggyback
- play
- pretend
- ringtoss
- show-and-tell
- spitball
- tag
- trick-or-treating
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