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- noun Alternative spelling of
coat hanger .
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Examples
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Every year after the shedding, I slide a coat-hanger in through…well, use your imagination…and I file them away behind business suits in my closet.
This Year's Exoskeleton Dean Marshall Tuck 2011
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When I recommended to my friend that she take out a license to become a self-employed button-coverer, or a coat-hanger maker, she jumped up from her chair waving her hands, No! No! "If my name is on the next list," she said, "I'm going to create a scene that will be heard in the office of the minister and every hallway."
Yoani Sanchez: Cuban State Lays Off One in Five Workers Yoani Sanchez 2010
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How do you pressure Stupak and the coat-hanger crowd?
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Again, by all reports, the House members refusing to vote for the Senate bill are Stupak allied coat-hanger lobbyists, despite the noisemaking on the liberal side.
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When I recommended to my friend that she take out a license to become a self-employed button-coverer, or a coat-hanger maker, she jumped up from her chair waving her hands, No! No! "If my name is on the next list," she said, "I'm going to create a scene that will be heard in the office of the minister and every hallway."
Yoani Sanchez: Cuban State Lays Off One in Five Workers Yoani Sanchez 2010
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He tried to wire it up with a coat-hanger, but the connections were difficult, so he had to put the car on a big dolly to tow us from Mississauga home.
In Threes melted_snowball 2009
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He achieves the desired shoulder width by leaving a coat-hanger in the jacket while he wears it.
Hep Cats, Street Fights Eric Felten 2011
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How do you pressure Stupak and the coat-hanger crowd?
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These laws should last long enough for a rough dozen or maybe two young women to die horrendous deaths, bleeding from coat-hanger abortions.
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The problem, of course, is that the designs of biology look more like flash drives (on steroids) than coat-hanger antennas.
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