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dangle

1. dan.gle \'dan-g*l\ \-g(*-)lin\ \-g(*-)l*r\ \-g(*-)lin-le-\ vb or 
   dan.gling [prob. of Scand origin; akin to Dan dangle to dangle] 1: to hang 
   loosely esp. with a swinging motion  2: to be a hanger-on or dependent  3: 
   to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic rel 
   ation to the rest of the sentence 1: to cause to dangle : SWING  2: to keep 
   hanging uncertainly  - dan.gler n
2. dangle n 1: the action of dangling  2: something that dangles