Usually means: Suspension by rope until death.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hanging: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hanging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hanging: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hanging: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hanging: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hanging, hanging: Wordnik
  7. hanging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hanging: Wiktionary
  9. hanging: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hanging: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hanging: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hanging, hanging: Dictionary.com
  13. hanging: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hanging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hanging (meat), Hanging: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hanging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hanging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hanging: Rhymezone
  19. Hanging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hanging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hanging: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hanging: Free Dictionary
  23. hanging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hanging: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hanging: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hanging: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hanging: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hanging: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hanging, hanging, hanging: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hanging: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hang as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Suspended.
adjective:  (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
adjective:  (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
adjective:  (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
noun:  (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
noun:  (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.

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