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

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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 pulling hard enough on the bottom of the coat hanger that it bends out of shape.

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

Then I curled the two ends outward, so when the coat hanger was around my head, the ends angled away from my face and formed hooks to hold the rubber band in place.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls