strap-hanging

See also: straphanging

English

Adjective

strap-hanging (not comparable)

  1. Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17:
      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'.

Verb

strap-hanging

  1. present participle of strap-hang

References

“strap-hang” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

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