: a game in which the object is for one player to guess the letters of an unknown word before the player who knows the word creates a stick figure of a hanged man by drawing one line for each incorrect guess
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But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose.—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025 Did Erik Menendez really play hangman with Leslie Abramson in court?—Jessica Sager, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024 The second story is about Eichmann’s prison guard, Haim (Yoav Levi), a Moroccan Jew who takes pains to make sure his charge is unharmed and delivered to the hangman’s noose in as good a shape as possible.—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 June 2024 All About Actress Cheryl Hines On the morning of May 16, 2012, a Wednesday, Mary put on her yoga clothes and sandals, walked out to her barn, stacked three metal crates atop each other, then used a metal ladder to tie a hangman’s knot around the rafter.—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for hangman
: a game in which the object is for one player to guess the letters of an unknown word before the player who knows the word creates a stick figure of a hanged man by drawing one line for each incorrect guess
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