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hangmen

[hang-muhn for 1; hang-man for 2]

hang·man

[hang-muhn for 1; hang-man for 2]
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; Middle English; see hang, man1

un·der·hang·man, noun, plural -men.
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