Coat Switching is when you change your language and mannerism to adapt to a cultural or religious environment. Similar to "code switching" which is more often used to express something or someone using more than one language or dialect. Coat Switching is used more to convey who you are as a person
example 1. The boyz from the hood "coat switched" around the new girls parents, trying to make a good first impression so that she would get their permission. example 2. The boy was coat switching on his return to the Islands so the "locals" accepted him.
Usually meaning that a guy is in the closet about his homosexuality or bisexuality, and is deathly afraid of telling his peers or family, though he fucks guys secretly behind everyones back.
GOD! Sean is such a coat hanger fag! I cant fuckin stand it! Why cant he just tell everyone he is bi?