: 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
Examples of hangman in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebFrom the fabulous Hiromi to a dark stage comedy about hangmen to a breathtaking exhibit about migration, there’s a lot to see and do this weekend.—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024 But, unfortunately for those involved, there really was a murder during the cold 1899 winter at Lituya Bay and, ultimately, a hangman’s rope for the murderer.—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023 The scene is England’s North in the mid-1960s and the action — inspired by the abolishment of hanging for capital crimes — takes place principally in the Lancashire pub of Alice (Tracie Bennett) and Harry (David Threlfall), the latter compelled to retire from his job as the last English hangman.—Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022 Wheel of Fortune, a variation of hangman where contestants try to guess a term or phrase after spinning a wheel that determines their prize money, was created by Griffin in 1975.—Lucas Shaw, Fortune, 12 June 2023 As Pierrepont — the gold-medalist hangman to Harry's silver — John Hodgkinson (The Ferryman) makes up for a late arrival with the pure command of his presence, his oak-tree stature and lordly arrogance a welcome jolt to the symphony of slapstick revelations in the last act.—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022 In America, the hangman's noose has come to symbolize a deplorable act of brutality, along with unbound fear and hatred towards African Americans.—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 21 May 2021 Göring cheated the hangman when a sympathetic American officer slipped him a cyanide capsule the night before.—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023 The hangman’s noose has come to symbolize brutality in the US and its history of lynchings and hatred toward Black people.—Isa Kaufman Geballe, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
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: 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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