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Hanger or hangers may refer to:
- Clothes hanger, device in the shape of human shoulders or legs used to hang clothes on
- Hanger, Inc., prosthetic and orthotic provider in the United States
- Hanger steak, a tender cut of steak
- Casing hanger, part of a wellhead assembly in oil drilling
- Derailleur hanger, a slot in a bicycle frame where the derailleur bolt attaches
- Monkey hanger, a British term for people from Hartlepool, England
- Hanger, part of a skateboard
- Hanger, a sword similar to a cutlass, used by woodsmen and soldiers in 17th to 18th centuries
- Hanger, or specky, a slang term for spectacular mark in Australian rules football
- Hangers, American slang for large, pendulous breasts
- Hanger (barbershop music), a long note sung by one voice in a barbershop music song
- A hanger is a vertical cable or rod connecting the roadway of a suspension bridge to the bridge's main cable or arch
- Tie (engineering) a type of structural tie
- An old English word for a wooded slope from the Old English word hangra, preserved in English place names such as Hanger Lane
- Hanger (film) a 2009 horror film
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, 21 mile long-distance footpath through Hampshire, England
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
- James Edward Hanger (born 1843), U.S. Civil War veteran and founder of:
- Mostyn Hanger (1908–1980), judge, chief justice of Queensland, and administrator of Queensland.
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