Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coat hanger
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Application Tell the students that chimes can be made by using a metal spoon instead of a coat hanger.
▪ The vibrations you heard traveled through the metal coat hanger, then through the string and the pencils to your ear drum.
Wiktionary
coat hanger
n. A device used to hang up coats, shirts, etc, consisting of a hook with sloping "arms" in the approximate shape of human shoulders.
WordNet
coat hanger
n. a hanger that is shaped like a person's shoulders and used to hang garments on [syn: clothes hanger, dress hanger]