Definitions for hangers

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hangers hang·er

Spelling: [hang-er]

IPA: /ˈhæŋ ər/

Hangers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in hangers (aeghnrs).

Definitions for hangers

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 hangers

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

Examples for hangers

hangers on who get in touch with girls and still write things like, ‘If you get into the industry you can make $20,000 a month.’

Some ran to the guns, others got hold of their hangers and small-arms.

“If we do, we must keep one eye open and our hangers by our sides,” observed Tubbs.

Bosco Blithers, professor of penmanship and author of “Pot-hooks and hangers.”

The other fellows are just hangers on—camp followers, so to speak.

The center-right hedge fund clique known as Third Way, and associated Blue Dogs and hangers on.

They are the pothooks and hangers of surgery, and I have gone that far.

There are in use too many kinds of hangers to explain or describe them here.

Clothes forms and hangers are so inexpensive that every gown and coat should have its own.

The café can sit about 20 people, has a cozy atmosphere, beautiful paintings and hangers for scarves and manteaux.