Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rack furnished with pegs on which hats, coats, etc., may be hung.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hatstand; hattree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US Alternative spelling of
hat rack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Did he just say my hatrack had violated his ancestors?"
"We Are the Last Minority" Say Surrealist Poets Con Chapman 2011
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I DO aspire to use my noggin as something other than a hatrack, although all too frequently I fail, here and elsewhere.
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Use your noggin for something besides a Baby Bush hatrack.
Torturous David 2006
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Orson Scott Card is at hatrack.com, short for the title of his site, Hatrack River.
Archive 2005-08-01 Holly 2005
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Orson Scott Card is at hatrack.com, short for the title of his site, Hatrack River.
titles are not my forte Holly 2005
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I may decide to sell off the wing chun wooden dummy, as I'm only using it for a hatrack.
purging badger 2001
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I said I'd like to see them, and she stepped aside to gesture me into the black-and-white-tiled hall; it was wallpapered and dominated by an enormous hatrack and umbrella stand, the middle section of which was a full-length mirror.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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She brushed past him, slung her bags beneath the old oak hatrack beside the door.
Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992
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Gnimsh snorted as a hatrack appeared at the end of the bed.
War of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1986
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Gnimsh snorted as a hatrack appeared at the end of the bed.
War of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1986
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