Definitions for hanger

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hanger hang·er

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IPA: /ˈhæŋ ər/

Hanger is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in hanger (aeghnr).

Definitions for hanger

noun

1. a shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, usually of wire, wood, or plastic, for draping and hanging a garment when not in use.
2. a part of something by which it is hung, as a loop on a garment.
3. a contrivance on which things are hung, as a hook.
4. Automotive. a double-hinged device linking the chassis with the leaf springs on vehicles having solid axles.
5. a light saber of the 17th and 18th centuries, often worn by sailors.
6. a person who hangs something.

Origin of hanger

1400-50; late Middle English hangere; see hang, -er¹

Examples for hanger

That same day, hanger pulled over a beat-up Mercury Marquis with no license plates cruising down a highway headed to Kansas.

He took his coat from the hanger, put it on, and reached for his hat, then hesitated.

A hanger found in a driveway in the 1500 block of Sixth Street caused suspicion.

He drew his hanger; and for that instant his sun was at noon.

"No... no... no...," she said as she slid each garment aside on its hanger.

It was all about how much you can look like a hanger on the runway.

He strode out of the office, hooking his sidearm belt from a hanger as he went by.

I'll lay the first fellow's skull open with this hanger that fires a shot at him.

They looked down from the edge of the hanger over a cup-like hollow.

Behind a calico curtain was his new suit, dismayingly neat on its hanger.