Hanger

Hanger or hangers may refer to:

Hardware

• Clothes hanger, a device in the shape of human shoulders or legs used to hang clothes on
• Casing hanger, part of a wellhead assembly in oil drilling
• Derailleur hanger, a slot in a bicycle frame where the derailleur bolt attaches
• Tie (engineering), a type of structural member
• Hanger, part of a skateboard
• Hanger, a sword similar to a cutlass, used by woodsmen and soldiers in 17th to 18th centuries
• A hanger, a vertical cable or rod connecting the roadway of a suspension bridge to the bridge's main cable or arch

People

• George Wallace William Hanger (1866–1935), American
• George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine (1750–1824), English author and soldier in the American Revolution
• Art Hanger (born 1943), Canadian politician
• Harry Hanger (1886–1918), English footballer
• James Edward Hanger (1843–1919), U.S. Civil War veteran and founder of:

• Hanger, Inc.

• Mostyn Hanger (1908–1980), judge, chief justice of Queensland, Australia, and administrator of Queensland
• Percy Hanger (1889–1939), English footballer

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, a 21-mile long-distance footpath through Hampshire, England

Slang

• Hanger (barbershop music), a long note sung by one voice in a barbershop music song
• Monkey hanger, a British term for people from Hartlepool, England
• Hanger, or specky, a slang term for spectacular mark in Australian rules football
• Hangers, American slang for large, pendulous breasts

Other uses

• Hanger (film) a 2009 horror film
• Hanger steak, a tender cut of steak
• Hanger, Inc., prosthetic and orthotic provider in the United States
• An old English word for a wooded slope from the Old English word hangra, preserved in English place names such as Hanger Lane

See also

• Cliffhanger
• All pages with titles beginning with Hanger
• All pages with titles containing Hanger
• Hangar (disambiguation)