Hanger or hangers may refer to:
Hardware
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Clothes hanger
A clothes hanger, coat hanger, or coathanger, is a hanging device in the shape/contour of:
* Human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat, jacket, sweater, shirt, blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles, with a lowe ...
, a device in the shape of human shoulders or legs used to hang clothes on
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Casing hanger
In petroleum production, the casing hanger is that portion of a wellhead assembly which provides support for the casing string when it is lowered into the wellbore. It serves to ensure that the casing is properly located. When the casing string has ...
, part of a wellhead assembly in oil drilling
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Derailleur hanger
A fork end, fork-end, or forkend is a slot in a bicycle frame or bicycle fork where the axle of a bicycle wheel is attached. A dropout is a type of fork end that allows the rear wheel to be removed without first derailing the chain.
Track bicycl ...
, a slot in a bicycle frame where the derailleur bolt attaches
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Tie (engineering)
A tie, strap, tie rod, eyebar, guy-wire, suspension cables, or wire ropes, are examples of linear structural components designed to resist tension. It is the opposite of a strut or column, which is designed to resist compression. Ties may b ...
, a type of structural member
* Hanger, part of a
skateboard
A skateboard is a type of sports equipment used for skateboarding. They are usually made of a specially designed 7-8 ply maple plywood deck and polyurethane wheels attached to the underside by a pair of skateboarding trucks.
The skateboarder ...
* Hanger, a sword similar to a
cutlass
A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a common naval weapon during the early Age of S ...
, used by woodsmen and soldiers in 17th to 18th centuries
* A hanger, a vertical cable or rod connecting the roadway of a
suspension bridge to the bridge's main cable or arch
People
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George Wallace William Hanger
George Wallace William Hanger (March 28, 1866 – December 26, 1935) was a mediator for the Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation and held other positions for government agencies involved in the resolution of labor disputes.
Biography
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(1866–1935), American
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George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine (1750–1824), English author and soldier in the American Revolution
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Art Hanger
Arthur Hanger (born February 19, 1943) is a Canadian politician.
Hanger is a former member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, having represented the riding of Calgary Northeast from 1993 until his retirement ...
(born 1943), Canadian politician
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Harry Hanger (1886–1918), English footballer
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James Edward Hanger (born 1843), U.S. Civil War veteran and founder of:
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Hanger, Inc.
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Mostyn Hanger (1908–1980), judge, chief justice of Queensland, Australia, and administrator of Queensland
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Percy Hanger (1889–1939), English footballer
Places
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Hanger Lane, a stretch of the North Circular Road in London, England
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Hanger River or Anger River, a river in west central Ethiopia
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Hangers Way, a 21-mile long-distance footpath through Hampshire, England
Slang
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Hanger (barbershop music) {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
A hanger, or a post, in barbershop music is a long note, held by one of the voices in the quartet, while the other voices are free to change notes, and even breathe. Hangers usually occur in the ...
, a long note sung by one voice in a barbershop music song
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Monkey hanger
"Monkey hanger" is a colloquial nickname by which people from the town of Hartlepool, England are sometimes known.
Origin of the name
According to local folklore, the term originates from a likely apocryphal incident in which a monkey was han ...
, a British term for people from Hartlepool, England
* Hanger, or
specky
A spectacular mark (also known as a specky, speckie, speccy, screamer or hanger) is a mark (or catch) in Australian rules football that typically involves a player jumping up on the back of another player.
The spectacular mark has become a much ...
, a slang term for spectacular mark in Australian rules football
* Hangers, American slang for large, pendulous
breast
The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of a primate's torso. Both females and males develop breasts from the same embryological tissues.
In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and sec ...
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Other uses
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''Hanger'' (film) a 2009 horror film
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Hanger steak, a tender cut of steak
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Hanger, Inc., prosthetic and orthotic provider in the United States
* An old English word for a wooded slope from the Old English word , preserved in English place names such as
Hanger Lane
See also
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Cliffhanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction. A cliffhang ...
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Hangar (disambiguation)
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