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