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Formerly in British costume, the hanger was the fringed loop or strap hung to the girdle by which the dagger was suspended.
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The USS Enterprise was an American aircraft carrier of 19900 tons displacement launched in 1936. The USS Enterprise carried a complement of 2072 including flying personnel and 81 aircraft, though provision was provided to carry over 100 aircraft. She was powered by nine Babcock and Wilcox Express type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots. She was armed with eight 5 inch dual purpose guns; sixteen 1.1 inch anti-aircraft machine-guns and sixteen smaller machine-guns. Unusually, the aircraft could be catapulted from the hanger deck as well as from the flight deck, thereby increasing the number of aircraft that could be put in the air at short notice.
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The USS Yorktown was an American aircraft carrier of 19900 tons displacement launched in 1936 and sunk in the Pacific in July 1942. The USS Yorktown carried a complement of 2072 including flying personnel and 81 aircraft, though provision was provided to carry over 100 aircraft. She was powered by nine Babcock and Wilcox Express type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots. She was armed with eight 5 inch dual purpose guns; sixteen 1.1 inch anti-aircraft machine-guns and sixteen smaller machine-guns. Unusually, the aircraft could be catapulted from the hanger deck as well as from the flight deck, thereby increasing the number of aircraft that could be put in the air at short notice.
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Baggage is slang for a promiscuous woman.
Baggage is slang for a hanger-on, especially one who is a liability.
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Chopper is slang for a helicopter.
Chopper is slang for the penis.
Chopper is slang for a customised motorcycle with high ape hanger handlebars and lengthened front forks.
Chopper is American slang for a sub-machine-gun.
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Coat hanger is London Cockney rhyming slang for an old car (banger).
Coat hanger is London Cockney rhyming slang for a sausage (banger).
Coat hanger is London Cockney rhyming slang for clanger.
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Hanger was old slang for a dagger.
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Ligger is British theatre slang for a person who habitually takes advantage of what is freely available; a hanger-on or freeloader, a gate-crasher.
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Limer is Caribbean slang or a hanger-on.
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Old coat hanger is slang for Melbourne, Australia.
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