dangle🔊

To hang loosely with the ability to swing.

(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.

To hang or trail something loosely.

(figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.

(dated) To trail or follow around.

(medicine) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.

(medicine) To position (a patient) with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.

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) A series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.

A dangling ornament or decoration.