Usually means: Word guessing game with penalties.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hangman: Merriam-Webster
  2. hangman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hangman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hangman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hangman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hangman, hangman: Wordnik
  7. hangman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hangman: Wiktionary
  9. hangman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hangman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hangman: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hangman, hangman: Dictionary.com
  13. Hangman (Archie Comics), Hangman (DC Comics), Hangman (Marvel Comics), Hangman (game), Hangman (video game), Hangman, The Hangman (film), The Hangman (poem), The Hangman (roller coaster): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hangman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hangman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hangman: Rhymezone
  17. hangman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hangman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hangman: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hangman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hangman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hangman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Hangman, The Hangman (film), The Hangman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Hangman (film), The Hangman, hangman: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hangman: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hangman: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
noun:  Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.
noun:  (uncountable, games) 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.

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