Dangle, dangler or dangling may refer to:
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Dangler (plot device)
Dangler is a literary term meaning a plotline that is metaphorically left to "dangle" or "hang". A ''dangler'', or ''dangling plotline'', is a plot device in fiction where a plotline is forgotten, phased out and eventually dropped, thus a resoluti ...
, an unresolved plot line in a story
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Dangle (espionage)
Dangle (''podstava'' in Russian intelligence jargon and ''chèvre'' in French police and intelligence jargon''Jargon Policier (Police Française)'', Sébastien Burneauavailable online on Knol.) is a term used in intelligence work to refer to an age ...
, an agent of one side who pretends to be interested in defecting to another side
* Dangle, a type of
earring
An earring is a piece of jewelry attached to the ear via a Body piercing, piercing in the earlobe or another external part of the ear (except in the case of clip earrings, which clip onto the lobe). Earrings have been worn by people in different c ...
* 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
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensi ...
, a complete defeat of a defender or goalie achieved by performing complex stick moves and tricks
People with the surname
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Lloyd Dangle
Lloyd Dangle (born May 13, 1961) is an American writer and cartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist.
Biography
Early life and career
Lloyd Dangle graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High School in 1979, and attended the University of Michig ...
, American writer and artist
* Lt. Jim Dangle, a
''Reno 911!'' character
See also
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Dangling modifier
A dangling modifier (also known as a dangling participle or illogical participle) is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended. A dan ...
(or dangling participle), a type of misplaced grammatical phrase
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Dangling pointer
Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations. More generally, dangling references and wild references are ...
(computing), a pointer not pointing to a valid object
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