hangman

Noun

Meaning

One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slayer ketch shrike gibbet gallows strangler hanger stifler killer executioner hyena scaffold corticosteroid slaughterer punisher
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Antonyms

patsy goat target prey butt mockery
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Hypernyms

executioner public executioner

Phrases with the word

hangman's fracture hangman's jig hangman's noose hangman's wages hangman's loop hangman's knot

Derivatives

Hangmen

Anagrams

Ghannam

Examples

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. Eli Wallach

Say a word to the hangman for me, me and my baby. Tori Amos

She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history. Margaret Atwood

Success to you! God speed the craft! as the hangman said to the judge. German Proverb

A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight. Spanish Proverb

"bad company,” said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hangingwall hangiri hangle hangman paradox hangman's fracture hangman's halter