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  • noun Alternative spelling of coat rack.

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Examples

  • If we see Tapper guest spotting on Don Imus's Fox Business News morning program and getting the complete leathery-tongue love-on from the coat-rack cowboy, we'll know something is afoot.

    Tarzan No Understand Words White House Say: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • If we see Tapper guest spotting on Don Imus's Fox Business News morning program and getting the complete leathery-tongue love-on from the coat-rack cowboy, we'll know something is afoot.

    James Wolcott's Blog Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Nicholson calls this ˜the coat-rack view™ of gender: our sexed bodies are like coat racks and “provide the site upon which gender [is] constructed” (1994, 81).

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Mikkola, Mari 2008

  • Gender conceived of as masculinity and femininity is superimposed upon the ˜coat-rack™ of sex as each society imposes on sexed bodies their cultural conceptions of how males and females should behave.

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Mikkola, Mari 2008

  • You know, the critics in the '60s fell all over themselves praising Jean Luc-Godard and Francois Truffaut for "reinventing" the pulp noir story by using the genre as a coat-rack for exisential musings, but "The Killers" goes them one better, in my opinion.

    From Fred Blosser Ed Gorman 2007

  • You know, the critics in the '60s fell all over themselves praising Jean Luc-Godard and Francois Truffaut for "reinventing" the pulp noir story by using the genre as a coat-rack for exisential musings, but "The Killers" goes them one better, in my opinion.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • But as he hangs his jacket on the hand-carved coat-rack and rushes toward the wooden stall in back, he doesn't see us.

    Excerpt: Zero Game by Brad Meltzer 2004

  • I copied his arrangement, and then was shown my hook on the coat-rack, and the shelf in the room allotted for my books.

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • Her eyes darted to her holster on the coat-rack just inside the kitchen.

    Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005

  • Paul turned around, twisted one of the handles on the double doors, pulling it open, the moonlight through the big open window spilling into the ante-room, with its chairs, its coat-rack, and its secret.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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