Usually means: Hang or swing loosely, freely.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dangle: Merriam-Webster
  2. dangle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dangle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dangle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dangle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dangle, dangle: Wordnik
  7. dangle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dangle: Wiktionary
  9. dangle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dangle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dangle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dangle, dangle: Dictionary.com
  13. dangle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dangle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dangle (espionage), Dangle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dangle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dangle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dangle: Rhymezone
  19. dangle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dangle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dangle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Dangle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. dangle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. dangle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. dangle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. dangle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dangle, dangle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dangle: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See dangled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To trail or follow around.
verb:  (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
noun:  An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
noun:  (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
noun:  A dangling ornament or decoration.

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