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- noun A
hook meant for supporting ahanging coat .
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Examples
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He looked like somebody gutted him with a rusty coathook.
Roger L. Simon » Scott Brown and Jim Webb set an example 2010
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The real question is, does he use her chin as a coathook?
Reese Withspoon Still All Like Boo Hoo Hoo About Her Divorce 2009
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He took off his hat, hung it on his saddle as if the horn were a coathook, and brushed absently through his hair with his fingers.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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The Verge's interview, he is back in Mexico now, with his guns hung up on the coathook.
Forbes.com: News Daniel Nye Griffiths 2012
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Throughout May 2008 - Many more useful objects were made by various first-generation RepRaps - including a coathook, a pair of sandals, a door handle and a fly swatter.
Next Big Future 2009
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Throughout May 2008 - Many more useful objects were made by various first-generation RepRaps - including a coathook, a pair of sandals, a door handle and a fly swatter.
Next Big Future 2009
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I've taken precautions and a wire coat-hanger sits permanently on my coathook just in case.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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