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–noun, plural -men. for 1.

1.	a person who hangs criminals who are condemned to death; public executioner.

2.	a word game in which one player selects a word that the other player must guess by supplying each of its letters: for each incorrect guess a part of a stick figure of a hanged man is drawn.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see hang, man¹

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hang·man Audio Help (hāng'mən) Pronunciation Key
n.

A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.
also (-mān) 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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hangman
noun
an executioner who hangs the condemned person

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ˈhangman noun

a man whose job it is to hang criminals

Arabic:	جَلاد، مُنَفِّذ حُكْم الإعْدام
Chinese (Simplified):	执行绞刑者
Chinese (Traditional):	執行絞刑者
Czech:	kat
Danish:	bøddel
Dutch:	beul
Estonian:	timukas
Finnish:	pyöveli
French:	bourreau
German:	der Henker
Greek:	δήμιος
Hungarian:	hóhér
Icelandic:	böðull
Indonesian:	algojo
Italian:	boia

Japanese:	絞首刑執行人
Korean:	교수형 집행자
Latvian:	bende
Lithuanian:	budelis, korikas
Norwegian:	bøddel
Polish:	kat
Portuguese (Brazil):	carrasco
Portuguese (Portugal):	carrasco
Romanian:	călău
Russian:	палач
Slovak:	kat
Slovenian:	rabelj
Spanish:	verdugo
Swedish:	bödel
Turkish:	cellat

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Hangman

Hang"man\, n.; pl. Hangmen(?). One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. --Shak.

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