Crossword clues for dangle
dangle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dangle \Dan"gle\, v. t. To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Dangle \Dan"gle\ (d[a^][ng]"g'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dangling.] [Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw. dangla, Dan. dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E. ding.] To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
He'd rather on a gibbet dangle
Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
--Hudibras.
From her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon.
--Tennyson.
To dangle about or To dangle after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.
The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle
after them,
are well inclined to pull down the present
establishment.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, probably from Scandinavian (compare Danish dangle, Swedish dangla "to swing about," Norwegian dangla), perhaps via North Frisian dangeln. Related: Dangled; dangling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. 2 (context slang ice hockey lacrosse English) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. 3 A dangling ornament or decoration. vb. (context intransitive English) to hang loosely with the ability to swing
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dangle, dangler or dangling may refer to:
- Dangle (espionage), an agent of one side who pretends to be interested in defecting to another side
- Dangle, in ice hockey, a variety of moves where a player dekes (fakes) out a goalie or player (it originally meant to skate fast with the puck)
- Dangle, in lacrosse, a complete defeat of a defender or goalie achieved by performing complex stick moves and tricks
- Lloyd Dangle, American writer and artist
- Lt. Jim Dangle, a Reno 911! character
- Dangling modifier (or dangling participle), a type of misplaced grammatical phrase
- Dangler (plot device), an unresolved plot line in a story
- Dangle, a type of earring
- Dangling pointer (computing), a pointer not pointing to a valid object
Dangle (podstava in Russian intelligence jargon and chèvre in French police and intelligence jargon) is a term used in intelligence work to refer to an agent or officer of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
The goal of a dangle is to convince the second or foreign intelligence agency that they have changed loyalties by offering to act as a double agent. The dangle then feeds information to their original agency and/or gives disinformation to the second or foreign intelligence agency.
Usage examples of "dangle".
Kosmos into a flatland interlocking order of holistic elements, with the embarrassed subject dangling over the flatland holistic world with absolutely no idea how it got there.
The aeronaut dangled weirdly head downward among the leaves and branches some yards away, and Bert only discovered him as he turned from the aeroplane.
The afterbirth dangled from her rump like a cluster of grape Popsicles.
From its chains dangled various chatelettes made from rustproof materials: brass scissors, a golden etui with a manicure set inside, a bodkin, a spoon, a vinaigrette, a needle-case, a small looking-glass, a cup-sized strainer for spike-leaves, a timepiece that had stopped, and whose case was inlaid with ivory and bronze, a workbox containing small reels of thread, an enameled porcelain thimble and a silver one, silver-handled buttonhooks and a few spare buttonsglass-topped, enclosing tiny picturesa miniature portrait of her mother worked in enamels, several rowan-wood tilhals, a highly ornamented anlace, a penknife, an empty silver-gilt snuff-box, and a pencil.
His clothing was askew, cravat dangling from a coat pocket, the reason only too easy to surmise.
He noted that Barton Badging was a prim-looking gentleman who wore gold-coin cufflinks, a tie pin fashioned from a coin, and had a gold-coin watch fob dangling from a heavy gold chain stretched across his vest.
A Sea Folk woman stared back at her, aghast, with a dozen begemmed rings in her ears and twice as many golden medallions dangling from the chain running to her nose ring.
Amanda was wearing his bib pants so that Scot could pull her by the excess length of the straps dangling next to her shoulders, which meant she was pointed in the wrong direction to be dragged from the cave.
The day Hillela returned from the holiday a woman was sitting with Pauline under the dangling swags of orange bignonia creeper that made private one end of the verandah.
The bikini bottom was tied on each hip, the strings dangling and begging to be unraveled.
A great deal of water, remarked the brief, bitterish smile, would have to go over the dam before Phyllis Dexter--dimpled and rosy and twenty-three--could realize what it meant to have a double handful of deep-rooted fixations ripped out of your viscera or wherever they were located, and every dangling, aching, red nerve fibre of them coolly examined under a microscope.
Snatching a pistol from his belt with his left hand he fired point-blank and the black man groaned and fell head and arms dangling in the opening.
The two friends were sitting on metal garden chairs, and Capa was wearing a raincoat over his suit, a cigarette was dangling from his lips.
When you come down again over the cenote with the stuff dangling on the end of the cable, I just haul it in to the side.
I sat on me edge of the cenote with my feet dangling over the side for nearly fifteen minutes before I did anything else.