Dangle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To hang loosely and swing or sway to and fro.
  • verb-intransitive. To be a hanger-on.
  • v. To cause to hang loosely or swing.
  • v. To cause (one's expectations or hopes) to hang uncertainly or remain unresolved.
  • n. The act or an instance of dangling.
  • n. Something dangled.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to hang loosely with the ability to swing
  • v. the action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie. Probably from It looks like he's dangling the puck on a string.
  • v. to hang or trail something loosely
  • n. An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
  • n. The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
  • v. To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hang loosely; be suspended so as to be swayed be the wind or any slight force.
  • Hence To dance attendance; hover longingly or importunately, as for notice or favors: used of persons, with about or after: as, to dangle about a woman; to dangle after a great man.
  • To carry suspended so as to swing; hold up with a swaying motion.
  • n. One of the points, bobs, rings, or the like, that dangle from an object.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause to dangle or hang freely
  • v. hang freely
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    dangled    dangles    dangling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    suspend   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Angle    Wrangell    angle    bangle    disentangle    entangle    fangle    jangle    mangle    newfangle