coat hanger

noun

1. hanger.

coat hanger

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of coat hanger¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

A director of national intelligence who’s shown no great abundance of that quality but, rather, an eagerness to twist and bend facts like a coat hanger, serving whatever cockamamie claim the president burps up.

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Her long-term partner, Prudence Fenton, explains in the film that she was allotted “this much” drawer space and two coat hangers when she moved in.

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Ann Martinez has pleaded not guilty to several charges, including child abuse tied to disciplining the boys by allegedly hitting them with a coat hanger.

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

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As detailed by one retired gynecologist in the New York Times in 2008, the symbol of a wire coat hanger was “in no way a myth.”

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