Uttal
- Okänd accent:
- IPA: /ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/
- IPA: /ˈdæŋ.gəl/
- US:
- also:
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Definitioner
Verb
- (intransitive) to hang loosely with the ability to swing
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
- To trail or follow around.
Substantiv
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
Exempel
- He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
- From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.
- Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
- His feet would dangle in the water.
- He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.
- I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.
- To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
- That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
- So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.
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