Usually means: Loose ends or hanging parts.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dangles: Merriam-Webster
  2. dangles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dangles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dangle's, Dangles, dangles: Wordnik
  5. dangles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dangles: Wiktionary
  7. dangles: Dictionary.com
  8. dangles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dangles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangles: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangles: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangles: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dangle)

verb:  (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
verb:  (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To trail or follow around.
verb:  (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
noun:  An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
noun:  (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
noun:  A dangling ornament or decoration.
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