dangle

IPA: dˈæŋgʌɫ

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.

(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.
(transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
(intransitive, dated) To trail or follow around.
(medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
(medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.

Examples of "dangle" in Sentences

Didn't he dangle from the aerial tram for a rope rescue demonstration?
What about those things some people dangle from the rear of their trucks?
He concentrated on that, letting the guitar fall and dangle from the strap around his neck.
Four people attached to a massive banner dangle from a Pittsburgh bridge Wednesday to protest the G-20 summit.
Ribbons, pearl and purple, dangle from the maypole down to the pale hands of children, who pull them, giggling.
Thirty years before, I asked Jim Angleton of the CIA if the Nosenko walk-in was what he called a dangle, and he waved me on.