Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A metallic hook sustaining a sliding door from above, and sliding on an iron track as the door moves.

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Examples

  • Sounds of athletic sex inside make the door-hanger flap.

    Retreat 2009

  • Never in the past twelve months have I gotten a letter, a door-hanger or a phone call that had to do with this change in parking.

    Question… 2007

  • Never in the past twelve months have I gotten a letter, a door-hanger or a phone call that had to do with this change in parking.

    RAGE!!1! 2007

  • Sounds of athletic sex inside make the door-hanger flap.

    Retreat 2009

  • They both lost because the Democratic election effort was taken over from the official party machinery by the volunteer California Democratic Councill, sort of a door-hanger version of Netroots.

    Stephen Kaus: It's Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around 2008

  • That's because there's a clearer value proposition: getting a certain vote out of an elderly supporter driven to the polls rather than another incremental touchpoint achieved by a door-hanger.

    Hillary Tries Grassroots Budgeting Ruffini, Patrick 2008

  • Eric I don't think your heart was really in it - I didn't see a single newspaper ad, or a single door-hanger, or anything.

    On to November David 2005

  • The early complaints about this case were about noise from barking dogs, a kind of complaint so common and so related to the state of the complainant sad, angry, lonesome people are hypersensitive that they tend to result in not much more than a door-hanger for the dog owner.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • The early complaints about this case were about noise from barking dogs, a kind of complaint so common and so related to the state of the complainant sad, angry, lonesome people are hypersensitive that they tend to result in not much more than a door-hanger for the dog owner.

    "Entering Human Lives " 2006

  • The first few knocks got no response (marked them down as NH for Not Home) and they got a door-hanger and some literature in English and Spanish.

    October 2004 2004

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