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What does hangman mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
  2. (game) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.
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Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.
We talked, listened to songs, played games like anti-tictactoe, hangman and scrabble.
Witnesses were limited to the hangman and his assistants, a few prison guards and a chaplain.
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.
For pudding I would have pecan pie and ginger ice cream with some kind of poison in it so I could cheat the hangman.
We played hangman and tic-tac toe in the dry sand to conserve water for writing.

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