strap-hanging
strap-hanging adjective: relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train. Also the present participle and gerund of strap-hang.
Adjective
strap-hanging (not comparable)
- Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
- The definitive London commute is from west London to the City in the east, and in his novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) George Orwell invoked 'the strap-hanging army that swings eastward in the morning, westward at night, in the carriages of the Underground'.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17
Noun
strap-hanging (uncountable)
- The action of hanging on to a strap or rail on public transport.
- An important sporting event or historical pageant taxes London's Underground railways to the utmost limit, and strap-hanging is and always will be an everyday occurrence.1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 20
Also used as
strap-hanging is also the present participle and gerund of strap-hang.
Questions about strap-hanging
- What does strap-hanging mean?
- Strap-hanging means relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
- What part of speech is strap-hanging?
- Strap-hanging can be an adjective or a noun.
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