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straphangers

straphangers is the plural of straphanger.

Meaning of straphanger

Noun

straphanger (plural straphangers)

  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.1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 8

Questions about straphangers

What is straphangers the plural of?
Straphangers is the plural of straphanger.

Words near straphangers in the dictionary

  1. strapdown
  2. strapdowns
  3. straped
  4. straphang
  5. straphanger
  6. straphangers
  7. straphanging
  8. straphangs
  9. straphung
  10. straping
  11. strapless

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