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The shoulders for clothes too lazy to stand on their own.
means A shaped device of wire, wood, or plastic with a hook, used to suspend clothing from a rail or rod.
from From 'hang,' which traces back to Old English 'hangian' (to hang) and its Germanic relatives, plus the agent suffix '-er' — literally 'a thing that hangs.' The word for the garment-holder is comparatively modern, arriving once closets and wardrobes made dangling your clothes the civilized alternative to a heap on the floor.
- hated origin
- Wire ones are blamed for ruined sweater shoulders
- sneaky breeding
- Multiply in closets when nobody's watching
- 1903 patent
- Invented by a worker fed up with crowded hooks
- abortion symbol
- The wire version became a grim political emblem
- velvet upgrade
- Flocked ones exist purely to stop slippage
operation paperclip — u.s. program that recruited 1,600+ nazi scientists after wwii, storing them in secret hangars
spruce goose hangar — hughes aircraft building in long beach, california—largest clear-span wooden structure ever built, 1946
vehicle assembly building — nasa facility in florida where space shuttle stacked vertically, largest volume building by cubic feet