Usually means: Left hanging or suspended loosely.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. dangled: Merriam-Webster
  2. dangled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dangled: Vocabulary.com
  4. dangled: Wordnik
  5. dangled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dangled: Wiktionary
  7. Dangled, dangled: Dictionary.com
  8. dangled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dangled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Dangled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. dangled: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dangled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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  1. dangled: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dangled: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dangle)

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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