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hangmen

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hang⋅man

  [hang-muhn for 1; hang-man for 2]
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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, man 1
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hang·man   (hāng'mən)   
n.  

  1. A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.

  2. 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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