name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #26676)
noun: (now rare, archaic) One who dangles about others, especially after women.
noun: (informal) A large earring that hangs down.
noun: (grammar, informal) A dangling participle.
noun: (slang) A penis.
noun: (slang, in the plural) The testicles.
noun: a plotline that is metaphorically left to "dangle" or "hang"; in other words, the plotline is forgotten, phased out and eventually dropped, and thus a resolution is never achieved