hangman
noun uk/ˈhæŋ.mən/ /ˈhæŋ.mæn/ us/ˈhæŋ.mən/ /ˈhæŋ.mæn/ -men uk/ˈhæŋ.mən/ us/ˈhæŋ.mən/
(PERSON)
[ C ]执行绞刑者
a person whose job is to operate the device that kills criminals by hanging them from a rope by their necks
(GAME)
[ U ]猜单词游戏，绞架猜字游戏
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.