EGAVE

hangman

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
  2. noun Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.
  3. noun A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.

Similar words

executioner hanging torturer bully perpetrator necktie butcher hanger hangwoman hangman's noose

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and of in was to is at had who

Word family

hangmen

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