Crossword clues for coathanger
coathanger
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of coat hanger English)
Wikipedia
Coathanger or coat hanger may refer to:
- Clothes hanger
- Coathanger (Australian rules football), a dangerous high tackle in Australian Rules Football
Coathanger may also refer to:
- Auckland Harbour Bridge, colloquially called this because of its shape
- Brocchi's Cluster (astronomy), a random grouping of stars located in the constellation Vulpecula near the border with Sagitta
- Sydney Harbour Bridge, so nicknamed for its distinctive shape
- Coathanger Antennae, an album by Diesel released in 2006
- Windsor Hanger, an Internet entrepreneur
A coathanger is a dangerous high tackle in Australian rules football, Rugby League, and Rugby Union.
It occurs when a running player is stopped by an arm to the chest or neck and usually gets knocked backward onto their back.
This type of tackle can cause serious injury and is almost always a reportable offence. It is similar to the clothesline move used in professional wrestling but involves more speed with the players running in open space and therefore, higher likelihood of the hand or arm damaging the tackled player's throat.
Usage examples of "coathanger".
It showed a huge figure, with a large sword, a monstrous monocle and a moustache as wide as a coathanger, menacing a much smaller figure armed with nothing more than an instrument for lifting beets -in fact there was a beet stuck on the end of it.
Peter went off to find a suitable tool with which to recover the knife and soon returned with an old wire coathanger picked from the rubbish in a nearby skip.
Peter retrieved his coathanger and returned to his task, but no sooner had he done so than a police car appeared, not screeching and hurtling but prowling.
I felt myself gray and softly twanging for a moment, like a coathanger left to shimmer on the pole, with Happy there behind me, alone in her bed and her hot death.
Remo grabbed a coathanger and twisted it through the handles of the top and bottom parts of the ironing table, fastening it together.
It looked like someone had run a coathanger in through the wind-wing in an attempt to jimmy the lock.
Two workers nearby were winding sanded coathanger wire around wooden rods and cutting off links for more.
He could have cancelled, he could have told him anything, but he was not prepared to suffer a moment's mild embarrassment if there was no immediate need to do so, and the two of them scrabbled around among the coathangers for several minutes until Will mumbled something about the world being closed on Saturday afternoons.
He'd soon fall victim to can-openers, plastic bags, coathangers and electric sockets.