See Also: hanger(medicine)
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Paper Hanger - Poker(gambling)

hanger(2) (iou)



hanger noun2. LME.
[from HANG verb + -ER1.]
A person who hangs (someone or something); spec.:
a. A person who kills or causes another to be killed by hanging, esp. as a form of capital punishment; one who advocates this. LME.
I. McEwan He decided to speak against the hangers in the annual punishment debate.
b. A person who causes a thing to be suspended or fastened on; spec. one who selects and hangs pictures for an exhibition. L18.
Something that hangs down or is suspended. LME.
A device by or on which something is hung; a support. E16.
coat-hanger.
J. S. Foster Floor joists..should preferably not be supported by metal hangers.
b. A loop or strap on a sword-belt for hanging the sword from. obsolete exc. Hist. L16.
c. A chain or rod in a fireplace for suspending a pot or kettle from by means of a pot-hook. Also, (a child's name for) a stroke with a double curve made in learning to write (chiefly in pot-hooks and hangers). L16.
d. A loop by which something, esp. a garment, is hung up. L17.
e. A coat-hanger. L19.
P. Roth Then from a hanger she took down a plaid hooded jacket.
Something that overhangs; Mining the rock over a lode or vein. M17.
Comb.: hanger-back a person who hangs back; hanger-on (freq. derog.) a follower, a dependant.