(countable) An executioner responsible for hanging criminals. / Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.

A kind of knot used primarily to execute a person by hanging.

(South Africa) The Fiscal shrike Lanius collaris

plural of hangman's noose

To die, especially by suicide, while under sentence of death, or while guilty of a capital crime; also, to kill someone else who is in such a state.

The struggling motions of a person being executed by hanging.

(colloquial) A fracture of both pedicles of the epistropheus.

Synonym of unexpected hanging paradox

(UK, slang, obsolete) The sum of thirteenpence halfpenny.

The office or character of a hangman.