Plural of coathanger; devices with hooks or arms for hanging and storing coats and jackets.
Compound of 'coat' and 'hangers' (from 'hang' meaning to suspend). The modern wire coathanger was invented in 1903, revolutionizing closet organization.
The wire coathanger was invented accidentally—a wire worker bent a piece of wire to hang his clothes over a lamp, and it was so useful his company started mass-producing them!
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