/ˈhæŋmən for 1; ˈhæŋˌmæn for 2/Show Spelled[hang-muhn for 1;hang-man for 2]Show IPA
noun, plural hang·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.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.