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uk /ˈhæŋ.mən/ /ˈhæŋ.mæn/ us /ˈhæŋ.mən/ /ˈhæŋ.mæn/ plural -men uk /-mən/ us

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› [ U ] a word game in which one player has to guess a word that the other player has thought of, by guessing the letters in it. Every time they guess a wrong letter, part of a picture of a person being hanged is drawn, and if the picture is completed the person guessing has lost.

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