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Definition of hangman in English:

hangman

nounPlural hangmen ˈhaŋmən
  • 1An executioner who hangs condemned people.

    (执行绞刑的)刽子手

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of all Stalin's hangmen, the most frightening was the last.
    • If your community needs judges, jailers, or even hangmen, and you are qualified, he declares, sign up!
    • Mallick comes from a family of professional hangmen - his father, D. Mallick, had hanged nearly 500 people.
    • I presume those arguing for fox hunting were complaining then that the banning of capital punishment ended decades of tradition and that loss of jobs for hangmen was enough to outweigh any moral issues.
    • The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy.
    • But I'd never ask anyone - a hangman or executioner, to do something I wouldn't do myself, nor approve of it.
    • At this point the forensic psychiatrist is invited to participate in a legally authorized execution, an act that makes doctors, at least metaphorically, into hangmen's accomplices.
    • British hangmen, we were told, took pride in their skill and efficiency.
    • On the same basis, skiers should be warned that those plank things on their feet could cause them to slide downhill rather rapidly and hangmen that their gallows were a bit unsafe because of that ruddy great trapdoor.
    • During Burns's own lifetime, books and poems were burned in Edinburgh's High street by the common hangmen.
    • Its gnarled branches twisted and turned into the air, and a hangman's noose hung from one of its thickest and strongest branches.
    • Thanks to a new book from historian and author of popular true crime books James Bland, the gruesome lives of some of the country's most infamous hangmen are brought vividly to life.
    • Again, due to the treason of fundamentalist hangmen, our people have been caught in the claws of the monster of a vast war and destruction.
    • Across the road there's Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest house, dating back to 1471, home in the 19th century to Glasgow's hangmen, who would have dispatched many a Duke Street prisoner.
    • Indeed, from hangmen, Copper Kings, scientists, and artists to hoboes, harlots, and homesteaders, we enjoyed Montana and western history in all its varied aspects.
    • It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime.
    • Now the colourful life of Pierrepoint - whose father and uncle had been hangmen before him - is to be turned into a film, The Last Hangman, with Timothy Spall in the main role.
    • But for nearly all the cases we considered, it wouldn't have mattered if we were all hooded hangmen.
    • He is interested in the character of the hangmen.
    • Well Diane, finally, how do you think that history will judge these people who were the hangmen?
    1. 1.1mass noun A game for two in which one player tries to guess the letters of a word, the other player recording failed attempts by drawing a gallows and someone hanging on it, line by line.
      “绞架”猜字游戏(一种两人玩的猜字母游戏,游戏者猜单词的字母,每错一次就在纸上画一个吊着人的绞架,一排排依次画下去)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She must have seen our hangman games because she stopped.
      • Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.
      • We played hangman and tic-tac toe in the dry sand to conserve water for writing.
      • Provided by Summerhill School in Kingswinford, the site provides interactive online activities for students, using popular games such as hangman.
      • Cards and games of hangman were our salvation and how we managed to remain positive while barely able to stand the smell of each other, I will never know.
      • The priest's sermon, recalling his youthful days as a missionary, doesn't garner much attention as the kids use stubby pencils to play hangman on the backs of their programs.
      • As I recall, my early school years included a gazillion games of hangman.
      • ‘James, play hangman with me on the board,’ she insisted.
      • I let most of my classes play hangman in the last five minutes before class ends if they complete the work that I have set for them.
      • We started out with the old standard hangman, then figured out ways to complicate it.
      • The games include crosswords, hangman and cryptogram.
      • We talked, listened to songs, played games like anti-tictactoe (where your objective is to force the other person to get three in a row), hangman and scrabble.
      • At his daytime job he has ominous conversations with a sinister welder whom none of his co-workers has ever seen, and he finds cryptic notes in his apartment in the form of handwritten hangman games.
      • Use washable window markers to make colorful creations that even passers-by can enjoy, or to play endless, paper-free games like tic-tac-toe and hangman.
      • The resources here include comprehension activities and games such as hangman, and plenty of information about the news, culture and lifestyle of German-speaking countries.
      • His fears are confirmed when he spies a curious Post-It note on the fridge revealing an unfinished game of hangman.
      • Russian American immigrant Olesa Zaharova leads a game of hangman on the blackboard of her language class.
      • Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance.
      • Plus, you can write letters home to let your partner know how much you're missing them, and that you're not even joining in the games of filthy hangman.
      • And Jamie isn't in my English set so I had no one to play hangman with.

Rhymes

hangmen

Definition of hangman in US English:

hangman

noun
  • 1An executioner who hangs condemned people.

    (执行绞刑的)刽子手

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Its gnarled branches twisted and turned into the air, and a hangman's noose hung from one of its thickest and strongest branches.
    • Across the road there's Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest house, dating back to 1471, home in the 19th century to Glasgow's hangmen, who would have dispatched many a Duke Street prisoner.
    • Now the colourful life of Pierrepoint - whose father and uncle had been hangmen before him - is to be turned into a film, The Last Hangman, with Timothy Spall in the main role.
    • He is interested in the character of the hangmen.
    • If your community needs judges, jailers, or even hangmen, and you are qualified, he declares, sign up!
    • Thanks to a new book from historian and author of popular true crime books James Bland, the gruesome lives of some of the country's most infamous hangmen are brought vividly to life.
    • The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy.
    • At this point the forensic psychiatrist is invited to participate in a legally authorized execution, an act that makes doctors, at least metaphorically, into hangmen's accomplices.
    • It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime.
    • On the same basis, skiers should be warned that those plank things on their feet could cause them to slide downhill rather rapidly and hangmen that their gallows were a bit unsafe because of that ruddy great trapdoor.
    • During Burns's own lifetime, books and poems were burned in Edinburgh's High street by the common hangmen.
    • I presume those arguing for fox hunting were complaining then that the banning of capital punishment ended decades of tradition and that loss of jobs for hangmen was enough to outweigh any moral issues.
    • But for nearly all the cases we considered, it wouldn't have mattered if we were all hooded hangmen.
    • Of all Stalin's hangmen, the most frightening was the last.
    • British hangmen, we were told, took pride in their skill and efficiency.
    • Indeed, from hangmen, Copper Kings, scientists, and artists to hoboes, harlots, and homesteaders, we enjoyed Montana and western history in all its varied aspects.
    • Mallick comes from a family of professional hangmen - his father, D. Mallick, had hanged nearly 500 people.
    • Again, due to the treason of fundamentalist hangmen, our people have been caught in the claws of the monster of a vast war and destruction.
    • Well Diane, finally, how do you think that history will judge these people who were the hangmen?
    • But I'd never ask anyone - a hangman or executioner, to do something I wouldn't do myself, nor approve of it.
    1. 1.1 A game for two in which one player tries to guess the letters of a word, and failed attempts are recorded by drawing a gallows and someone hanging on it, line by line.
      “绞架”猜字游戏(一种两人玩的猜字母游戏,游戏者猜单词的字母,每错一次就在纸上画一个吊着人的绞架,一排排依次画下去)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His fears are confirmed when he spies a curious Post-It note on the fridge revealing an unfinished game of hangman.
      • Plus, you can write letters home to let your partner know how much you're missing them, and that you're not even joining in the games of filthy hangman.
      • Cards and games of hangman were our salvation and how we managed to remain positive while barely able to stand the smell of each other, I will never know.
      • We talked, listened to songs, played games like anti-tictactoe (where your objective is to force the other person to get three in a row), hangman and scrabble.
      • Russian American immigrant Olesa Zaharova leads a game of hangman on the blackboard of her language class.
      • The priest's sermon, recalling his youthful days as a missionary, doesn't garner much attention as the kids use stubby pencils to play hangman on the backs of their programs.
      • Use washable window markers to make colorful creations that even passers-by can enjoy, or to play endless, paper-free games like tic-tac-toe and hangman.
      • At his daytime job he has ominous conversations with a sinister welder whom none of his co-workers has ever seen, and he finds cryptic notes in his apartment in the form of handwritten hangman games.
      • And Jamie isn't in my English set so I had no one to play hangman with.
      • The resources here include comprehension activities and games such as hangman, and plenty of information about the news, culture and lifestyle of German-speaking countries.
      • Provided by Summerhill School in Kingswinford, the site provides interactive online activities for students, using popular games such as hangman.
      • We played hangman and tic-tac toe in the dry sand to conserve water for writing.
      • Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance.
      • I let most of my classes play hangman in the last five minutes before class ends if they complete the work that I have set for them.
      • As I recall, my early school years included a gazillion games of hangman.
      • Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.
      • ‘James, play hangman with me on the board,’ she insisted.
      • The games include crosswords, hangman and cryptogram.
      • We started out with the old standard hangman, then figured out ways to complicate it.
      • She must have seen our hangman games because she stopped.
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