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Straphanger

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).

    "For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening."

  2. 2
    a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support wordnet
  3. 3
    a commuter who uses public transportation wordnet

Etymology

From strap + hanger.

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