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strap-hang

strap-hang is the alternative form of straphang.

Meaning of straphang

Verb

straphang (third-person singular simple present straphangs, present participle straphanging, simple past and past participle straphung)

  1. (intransitive) To ride public transport while standing and holding onto a strap.
    • Instead of having people coming from the outskirts, straphanging in omnibuses and trains, working in the centre under congested conditions in badly lit, insanitary buildings[…]1932, Great Britain, Parliamentary debates: Official report: Volume 269

Forms of strap-hang

third-person singular presentstrap-hangs
present participlestrap-hanging
past participlestrap-hung
paststrap-hung

Questions about strap-hang

What is strap-hang the alternative form of?
Strap-hang is the alternative form of straphang.

Words near strap-hang in the dictionary

  1. strap strategies
  2. strap strategy
  3. strap up
  4. strap warming
  5. strap work
  6. strap-hang
  7. strap-hanging
  8. strap-hangs
  9. strap-hung
  10. strap-off
  11. strap-offs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strap-hang (page history and authors); straphang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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