Meaning & use
Hanger
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A shaped piece of wood, plastic, or metal with a hook, used for hanging clothes.
See it in a sentence
She put the freshly ironed shirt on a hanger.
The closet was so full that half the hangers were empty on the floor.
A note on using this word
In British English, a "hanger" can also mean a wood growing on the steep side of a hill, an older sense related to the verb "to hang".
Another way to use it
2. noun
(British, chiefly dialectal) A wood or copse on the side of a steep hill.
The path wound up through the hanger before opening onto the ridge.
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