coat hanger

American  

noun

coat hangers plural

1. hanger.

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coat hanger British  

noun

1. a curved piece of wood, wire, plastic, etc, fitted with a hook and used to hang up clothes

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• coat hangers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of coat hanger

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

coat hanger

Its included slimline coat hanger kept everything nice and tidy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

And anyone who compares a copper wire with a steel coat hanger will quickly discern that copper is much more pliable than steel.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

Think of tugging gently on the bottom of a wire coat hanger and seeing it bounce back into shape when you let go.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2023

And then there was the night a wire coat hanger fell from the sky, like a giant Joan Crawford snowflake, and banged a ballerina in the face.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022

When I tried it on, the coat hanger dug into the back of my skull, so I used a Kotex sanitary napkin for padding.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls