Usually means: Tool for hanging clothes neatly.
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  1. hanger: Merriam-Webster
  2. hanger, hanger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hanger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hanger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hanger: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hanger, hanger: Wordnik
  7. hanger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hanger, hanger: Wiktionary
  9. hanger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hanger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hanger: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hanger: Dictionary.com
  13. hanger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hanger (barbershop music), Hanger (film), Hanger (sword), Hanger (weapon), Hanger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hanger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hanger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hanger: Rhymezone
  18. hanger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hanger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Hanger: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. hanger: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hanger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hanger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hanger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hanger: Encyclopedia

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  2. hanger: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. hanger: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hanger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hanger, Hanger, the hanger: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hanger: Gambling Glossary
  2. Hanger: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Hanger: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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noun:  One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
noun:  A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
noun:  That by which a thing is suspended.
noun:  A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
noun:  A bridle iron.
noun:  A clothes hanger.
noun:  (now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
noun:  (UK) A steep, wooded slope.
noun:  (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
noun:  (Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark
noun:  (climbing) A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
noun:  (slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
noun:  A surname.

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