hangman. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

hangman

SYLLABICATION:	hang·man
PRONUNCIATION:	hngmn
NOUN:	1. A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging. 2. (also -mn) A game in which one player chooses a word whose letters are guessed at by another player. For each wrong guess, a new part of the stick figure of a hanging man is drawn.


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