"cheat the hangman" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "In full \"cheat the hangman of his fee\", since a hangman would not be paid if there was nobody to hang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheats the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cheating the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cheated the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cheated the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "cheat the hangman (third-person singular simple present cheats the hangman, present participle cheating the hangman, simple past and past participle cheated the hangman)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Capital punishment",
          "orig": "en:Capital punishment",
          "parents": [
            "Criminal law",
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            "Law",
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "Justice",
            "Human",
            "Nature",
            "Society",
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        },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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        },
        {
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          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
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            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1831, Richard Longeville Vowell, William D. Mahoney, Campaigns and Cruises, in Venezuela and New Grenada, and in the Pacific Ocean, Longman, page 69",
          "text": "I sincerely hope, for your sake, that Don Beltran may expiate his treason, on the old Spanish gibbet in the Recoveco, as soon as Caraccas is a little more quiet; unless, indeed, the earthquake has already cheated the hangman of his fee, as is most probable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bernard Wasserstein, Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time",
          "text": "Twelve were condemned to death by hanging, among them Göring, who cheated the hangman by swallowing a cyanide tablet in his cell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die, especially by suicide, while under sentence of death, or while guilty of a capital crime; also, to kill someone else who is in such a state."
      ],
      "id": "en-cheat_the_hangman-en-verb-6tFTa3x~",
      "links": [
        [
          "die",
          "die"
        ],
        [
          "suicide",
          "suicide"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ],
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ],
        [
          "capital",
          "capital"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "kill",
          "kill"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Alice Freifeld, Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914, page 107",
          "text": "Rozsa's escapes from the gendarmerie were followed closely by the invisible crowd, and every time he cheated the hangman his legend grew.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape punishment for one's crimes; to get away with something."
      ],
      "id": "en-cheat_the_hangman-en-verb-c5AU3RxG",
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ],
        [
          "get away with",
          "get away with"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cheat the hangman"
}

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    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In full \"cheat the hangman of his fee\", since a hangman would not be paid if there was nobody to hang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheats the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cheating the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cheated the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cheated the hangman",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "cheat the hangman (third-person singular simple present cheats the hangman, present participle cheating the hangman, simple past and past participle cheated the hangman)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "en:Capital punishment"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1831, Richard Longeville Vowell, William D. Mahoney, Campaigns and Cruises, in Venezuela and New Grenada, and in the Pacific Ocean, Longman, page 69",
          "text": "I sincerely hope, for your sake, that Don Beltran may expiate his treason, on the old Spanish gibbet in the Recoveco, as soon as Caraccas is a little more quiet; unless, indeed, the earthquake has already cheated the hangman of his fee, as is most probable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bernard Wasserstein, Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time",
          "text": "Twelve were condemned to death by hanging, among them Göring, who cheated the hangman by swallowing a cyanide tablet in his cell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die, especially by suicide, while under sentence of death, or while guilty of a capital crime; also, to kill someone else who is in such a state."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "die",
          "die"
        ],
        [
          "suicide",
          "suicide"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ],
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ],
        [
          "capital",
          "capital"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "kill",
          "kill"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Alice Freifeld, Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914, page 107",
          "text": "Rozsa's escapes from the gendarmerie were followed closely by the invisible crowd, and every time he cheated the hangman his legend grew.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape punishment for one's crimes; to get away with something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ],
        [
          "get away with",
          "get away with"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cheat the hangman"
}