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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A rack furnished with pegs on which hats, coats, etc., may be hung.

Wiktionary

  1. n. US alternative spelling of hat rack.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A hatstand; hattree.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats

Etymologies

  1. hat +‎ rack (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Did he just say my hatrack had violated his ancestors?”

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  • “I DO aspire to use my noggin as something other than a hatrack, although all too frequently I fail, here and elsewhere.”

    Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog

  • “Use your noggin for something besides a Baby Bush hatrack.”

    Torturous

  • “Orson Scott Card is at hatrack.com, short for the title of his site, Hatrack River.”

    titles are not my forte

  • “I may decide to sell off the wing chun wooden dummy, as I'm only using it for a hatrack.”

    purging

  • “I said I'd like to see them, and she stepped aside to gesture me into the black-and-white-tiled hall; it was wallpapered and dominated by an enormous hatrack and umbrella stand, the middle section of which was a full-length mirror.”

    Time and Again

  • “She brushed past him, slung her bags beneath the old oak hatrack beside the door.”

    Black Blade

  • “Gnimsh snorted as a hatrack appeared at the end of the bed.”

    War of the Twins

  • “A tiny dingy office; two desks, buried in paper, a filing cabinet that wouldn't close properly, and a hatrack.”

    Frost at Christmas

  • “We were replaced by my husband, a towering hatrack of a man, gaunt and cavernous and haunted-looking as always, sitting on our flowered sofa.”

    Earthly Possessions

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