hangman
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Origin of hangman
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at hang, man
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When Merv Griffin created “Wheel of Fortune” in 1975 as television’s answer to hangman, it spent its early years on ratings life support.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021
The Good Lord Bird opens with Brown climbing a scaffold and, right before the hangman puts a hood over his head, saying, “What a beautiful country.”
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2020
The men in the pub are talking about the terrible state of the world and how in God’s name Hermann Goering escaped the hangman an hour before the hanging.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
The two hangmen are often called out to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cyprus, British Honduras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
Where is the LAW; where are the constables, the justices, the juries, the judges, the sheriffs, and the hangmen?
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
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