Definition of "hanging"

hanging¹

/ˈhæŋ.ɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of hang
adjective
not comparable
1. Suspended.
2. (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
3. (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
4. (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
  Quotations
  MUGSEY: Yeah. You fancy ‘im don’ you.LEANNE: No I don’t. Shut yer mouth.MUGSEY: Your mum said he’s gonna end up just like his dad.LEANNE: She don’ even know Bingo. Anyway, I don’t fancy ‘im, ‘e’s hanging.
  2007, Summer Scars (film screenplay)

hanging²

/ˈhæŋ.ɪŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural hangings
1. (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
  Quotations
  No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?
  1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway‎, volume 2, London, page 37
  It was just too bad that Milosevic died of "natural" causes in his cell in 2006 before he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, although a hanging would have been preferable.
  2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2022
2. (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
3. (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.