Hangman
['hæŋmən]
Definition
(n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Typist: Shirley
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician as in New Jersey where executions by electricity have recently been ordered—the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.
Editor: Lorna