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  • noun US Alternative spelling of hat rack.

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Examples

  • "Not just a hat-rack," said Anthony Napolitano, StumbleUpon's director of sales, as he tapped his forehead.

    Navigating a Texas-Size Fest Katherine Rosman 2011

  • He loved to take a big cane from the hat-rack and go around hitting chairs and tables with it and saying: “Fight, fight, fight.”

    Row Three » Read Fitzgerald’s Curious Case of Bejamin Button - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

  • Do your homework, and your reward may be a big, fat, hat-rack buck.

    Deer Guide Rick Kreuter on Scouting Trophy Bucks 2006

  • With what concerns our children, however, seems like a good hat-rack upon which to hang our questions now.

    March 2007 2007

  • With what concerns our children, however, seems like a good hat-rack upon which to hang our questions now.

    Money and everything 2007

  • She led Mr. Wrenn to the settee hat-rack in the hall.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • As he was going out Saturday morning he found a note from Istra waiting in the hall on the hat-rack:

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • He loved to take a big cane from the hat-rack and go around hitting chairs and tables with it and saying: “Fight, fight, fight.”

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • The chief clerk glanced at the hat-rack, but, seeing the row complete, offered no remark.

    Dubliners 2003

  • Chattahoochee, and Kamchatka, I might have received high grades in geography by abstaining from the chewing of gum, by not wearing my hands in my trousers-pockets, by walking instead of ambling or slouching, by wiping the mud from my shoes before entering the house, by a personally conducted tour through the realms of manicuring, and by learning the position and use of the hat-rack.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

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  • (v): to excessively prune a tree by removing the entire crown or canopy, leaving only stubs of the major branches.

    Should be filed under "things that should be illegal" or "You know you're an idiot if..."

    January 7, 2009

  • I call these amputrees.

    January 7, 2009

  • I like prunes.

    January 7, 2009

  • What a coincidence! I like cheese.

    January 7, 2009

  • Maybe they were trying to make a home for bugs and stuff, you know, to attract woodpeckers.

    Or something.

    I like cheese too but I'm factose intolerant.

    January 7, 2009

  • Ever the optimist, c_b.

    January 7, 2009