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n. (plural of coathook English)
Usage examples of "coathooks".
One of the brass coathooks somehow ran right through a buttonhole, neatest trick of the week, and another was in his pocket, like an inept pickpocket groping for a wallet.
He reached up and grabbed one of the coathooks jutting out of the board wall, looking like a straphanging commuter in a subway car.
It looked at the coathooks to the right of the door and saw immediately that the girl-Pie, to her brotherhad been taken down and wrapped in a drape.
Nothing back there except a lot of brass coathooks in a line on the wall and a long rubber mat on the floor for boots.
Noting the empty coathooks, he unlatches the inside door and tiptoes into the meeting hall.
A luminous picture above the coathooks limned a ghostly Jesus hovering grimly over a family seated at the kitchen table.
His mother had mounted a pair of low coathooks out there, especially for him and Dorsey to hang their coats on.