Strap-hanging
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Strap-hanging is an adjective meaning Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
Meaning
Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
More Meanings
- The action of hanging on to a strap or rail on public transport.
- present participle and gerund of strap-hang
Example Sentences
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.
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'.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chinstrapped, strap-on, strapped, straplined, strapping, behung.
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