hangman
hang·man
noun \ˈhaŋ-mən\Definition of HANGMAN
1
: one who hangs a condemned person; also : a public executioner
2
: a game in which the object is for one player to guess the letters of an unknown word before the player who knows the word creates a stick figure of a hanged man by drawing one line for each incorrect guess
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14th century
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