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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hanger
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clothes hanger
coat hanger
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coat
▪ Application Tell the students that chimes can be made by using a metal spoon instead of a coat hanger.
▪ Foam padding, often used on coat hangers, is not ideal.
▪ The vibrations you heard traveled through the metal coat hanger, then through the string and the pencils to your ear drum.
▪ I think they must make those figures by photographing a pile of coat hangers on the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From a hanger on the hatstand hangs the jacket of a pale grey summer suit.
▪ No laundry until the bed is made, or no new clothes until hangers are used.
▪ One medium-sized baby-blue Samsonite suitcase, containing all my clothes, except the few on hangers.
▪ Our offer pack contains three of these hangers.
▪ She considered, trying to ignore the jangling hangers, with their cold, quick touch.
▪ Shirts and sheets they hung from the ceiling, draping them on lines and hangers.
▪ The man was carrying a fur-collared suede coat on a hanger, draped with a dry cleaners' plastic bag.
▪ Two positions are catered for on the hanger, giving still more options of flow direction.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hanger

Bridle iron \Bri"dle i`ron\ (Arch.) A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hanger

early 15c., "one who hangs (something)," especially "hangman;" agent noun of hang (v.). Meaning "something that is suspended" is late 15c. Meaning "thing from which something is hung" is from 1690s. Specifically of coat or dress hangers from 1873. Hanger-on is from 1540s.

Wiktionary
hanger

n. 1 One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2 That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: 3 # A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. 4 # (context machines English) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. 5 # A bridle iron 6 # A clothes hanger 7 That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword. 8 (context UK English) A steep, wooded declivity.

WordNet
hanger
  1. n. a worker who hangs something

  2. anything from which something can be hung

Wikipedia
Hånger

Hånger is a locality situated in Värnamo Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with around 301 inhabitants in 2010.

Hanger (barbershop music)

A hanger, or a post, in barbershop music is a long note, held by one of the voices in the quartet, while the other voices are free to change notes, and even breathe. Hangers usually occur in the tag of a Barbershop song, although they may occur anywhere. The held note is typically the tonic note of the song (e.g. if the song is in G Major, the hanger is usually a G). Any one of the four voices can have the hanger, although the hanger is typically a high note, therefore it is usually assigned to either the Lead or Tenor.

Some Barbershop arrangements have elaborate tags featuring a long hanger, and the hanger is usually sung at a high volume (fortissimo in musical terminology). The best singers in Barbershop quartets at the highest level of competition can sing hangers that can be upward of 20 seconds long. The combination of the one note, held long and loud, and the other three voices singing various creative harmonies around that one note, is one of the most thrilling aspects of Barbershop music.

Singing a hanger is also referred to as posting a note.

Hanger (film)

Hanger is a 2009 horror film written and directed by Ryan Nicholson, and co-written by Patrick Coble.

Usage examples of "hanger".

He parked his dress coat on a hanger, gave careful choice to the selection of a proper billiard cue.

I am, my hanger shall scrape acquaintance with the longshore tuck which hangs at his girdle.

So I suggest you find the oldest and heaviest cut- lass aboard and practice with that, until a smallsword or hanger becomes like a feather in your hand.

As she took the russet outfit from its hanger I began filling her in on Suits and his problem.

He removed his tailored jacket and placed it carefully on the beechwood hanger by the door.

I turned it once, pulled open the mirror doors, and with my drumsticks pushed aside the hangers bearing the coats and other winter things.

I put down my brush and looked around for a wire coat hanger that I could poke through the grooves of the radiator.

A small mirror on the wall, some thin rust-colored curtains at the window, and a hook and two hangers on the back of the door to serve as a wardrobe.

Its walls were covered with racing photographs, bookshelves, a low row of racing colors on clothes hangers, and filing cabinets.

Clothes hangers were tinkling, and all the glass in the windows rattled like someone rapping to get in.

The wires led directly up to the roof, and, suspended on three-foot hangers of the light-metal, continued on toward the bow.

She takes her clothes off the hangers in the closet and hangs them back right-side out.

After arranging his trousers, shirt, and suit coat on hangers, he left the closet door open in hopes they would dry.

Because he had hung his slacks, shirt, and suit coat on hangers, there were less wrinkles than he feared.

On the far wall was a rack with hangers and built-in shelves next to it.