Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being or liable to be hanged.
  • Involving hanging as a punishment: as, a hangable offense.

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  • adjective Able to be hanged or suspended.

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Examples

  • I am the first to admit that the science is confusing and can seem contradictory - but the root of it, to try and ensure that future generations aren't igniting their farts to keep warm isn't exactly a hangable offence, is it?

    Jo Rourke: "Sustainability" Jo Rourke 2011

  • I am the first to admit that the science is confusing and can seem contradictory - but the root of it, to try and ensure that future generations aren't igniting their farts to keep warm isn't exactly a hangable offence, is it?

    Jo Rourke: "Sustainability" Jo Rourke 2011

  • Likewise, a physician could tell you the biological reason that hanging by rope is lethal, but evolution gives the historical quirks of our evolution that make us "hangable."

    Death of a popular anti-ID argument 2007

  • We used to have a little metal hook to hang bananas on, like a little banana tree also had a fruit bowl underneath the hook for non-hangable fruit

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - It’s ExtraLife Science Thursday 2008

  • The retrospective also takes place at Yale University Art Gallery, which has two wall drawings on view, and at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Mass., which will exhibit some sculpture and the more hangable type of drawings by LeWitt.

    MASS MoCA Show to Feature 2008

  • Wow, that seems like it would be a hangable offense in Colorado Springs.

    Seen Angie 2004

  • I peeled off coat, hat, gloves, muffler and suit coat and hung everything that was hangable on the brass coat tree in the hall, the one toward which my father used to toss his hat and usually miss so it landed on the floor for my mother to pick up later.

    Generous Death Nancy Pickard 1987

  • I peeled off coat, hat, gloves, muffler and suit coat and hung everything that was hangable on the brass coat tree in the hall, the one toward which my father used to toss his hat and usually miss so it landed on the floor for my mother to pick up later.

    Generous Death Nancy Pickard 1987

  • 'There are ten thousand hangable rogues in Paris, but only one poet amongst them!'

    The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896

  • Fr. _pendable_, hangable, that deserves hanging, thats fit to be hanged.

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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