Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations

Click to move up the list of words
hanging
hanging basket
hanging belay
hanging bivouac
hanging indentation
hanging participle
hanging stance
hanging wall
hangman
hangnail
hangout
hangout loan
hangover
hangtag
Hangtown fry
Hangul
Hangzhou
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

hangman

hang·man [ hángmən, háng màn ] (plural hang·men [ hángmən, háng mèn ])


noun 
Definition:
 
1. executioner: an official who carries out the death penalty of hanging

2. letter game: a game in which one player has to guess the letters of a word before the other player has drawn a person being hanged, with one line being added to the figure for every wrong guess

Advertisement

© 2009 Microsoft