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2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits:
With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.
That by which a thing is suspended.
A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
[H]is shoulder was graced with a broad buff belt, from whence depended a huge hanger with a hilt like that of a backsword […].
1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 4, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
I made an offer to go for my books and chest of clothes, but he swore I should not move out of his sight; and if I did he would cut my throat, at the same time taking his hanger.
He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 440:
When he called ‘Watch!’ they cut him on the head with a hanger or short cutlass and fired a pistol so close to his face he was thought to be powder-burned for life.
About the tenth of July in the same Summer a pair of sparrow-hawks bred in an old crow's nest on a low beech in the same hanger; and as their brood, which was numerous, began to grow up, became so daring and ravenous, that they were a terror to all the dames in the village that had chickens or ducklings under their care.
2012, Christine Dugan, Defying Gravity! Rock Climbing, page 37:
Climbers use anchors or bolts that are already placed in the rock. They clip onto them with metal hangers. Climbers don't need to place the anchors themselves, so they can focus on making the difficult climbing moves.
2021, John Long, Bob Gaines, Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent, page 118:
In marine areas (sea cliffs), even stainless steel bolts and hangers corrode rapidly.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with hangar (a garage-like building for airplanes).
(slang)Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
2015, Amanda Salis, “The science behind being "Hangry"”, in CNN "The conversation":
The physiology of hanger. The carbohydrates, proteins and fats in everything you eat are digested into simple sugars (such as glucose), amino acids and free fatty acids. These nutrients pass into your bloodstream from where they are distributed to your organs and tissues and used for energy […]