/ˈhæŋmən ||; ˈhæŋmən/noun[sing] 1 a person whose job is to kill criminals as a form of punishment by hanging them with a rope （执行绞刑的）刽子手
2 a word game where the aim is to guess all the letters of a word before a picture of a person hanging is completed 猜字母游戏（一种文字游戏。一次猜不中在画上添一笔，直到把绞架及被绞死的人画完。游戏旨在画成以前猜出某个词的全部字母）