Hanger
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Hanger or hangers may refer to:
- Clothes hanger, device in the shape of human shoulders or legs used to hang clothes on
- Hanger steak, a tender cut of steak
- Casing hanger, part of a wellhead assembly in oil drilling
- Derailleur hanger, a slot in a bicycle frame where the derailleur bolt attaches
- Monkey hanger, a British term for people from Hartlepool, England
- Hanger, part of a skateboard
- Hanger, a sword similar to a cutlass, used by woodsmen and soldiers in 17th to 18th centuries
- Hanger, or specky, a slang term for spectacular mark in Australian rules football
- Hangers, American slang for large, pendulous breasts
- Hanger (barbershop music), a long note sung by one voice in a barbershop music song
- A hanger is a vertical cable or rod connecting the roadway of a suspension bridge to the bridge's main cable or arch
- Tie (engineering) a type of structural tie
- An old English word for a wooded slope from the Old English word hangra, preserved in English place names such as Hanger Lane
[edit] Places
- Hanger Lane, a stretch of the North Circular Road in London, England
- Hanger River or Anger River, a river in west central Ethiopia
- Hangers Way, 21 mile long-distance footpath through Hampshire, England
[edit] People
- George Wallace William Hanger (1866-1935), American
- George Hanger (1750-1824), English author and soldier in the American Revolution
- Art Hanger (born 1943), Canadian politician
- James Edward Hanger (born 1843), US Civil War veteran and founder of Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics|Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc.
- Mostyn Hanger (1908–1980) was a judge, Chief Justice of Queensland, and Administrator of Queensland.
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