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ˈstrap-hang, v. colloq.
Also straphang.
[Back-formation from next.]
intr. To be a straphanger in a railway carriage, etc. Also fig.
1908O. Jespersen in Englische Studien LXX. 119 You strap-hang on the Subterranean. 1917Daily Mail 28 Aug. 2/5, I think those weary girls look like tired little flowers as they strap-hang for half an hour or more. 1931Galsworthy Maid in Waiting vii. 55 The only..difference..between Parties is that one Party sits in the National 'Bus, and the other Party strap-hangs. 1937W. H. Auden in Auden & MacNeice Lett. from Iceland v. 55 The bowler hat who straphangs in the tube. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Apr. 237/4 Miss Charles straphangs from fashion on a journey whose destination does not interest her. 1974K. Royce Trap Spider viii. 141, I still wonder what happened to her; it's not usually a happy ending with girls who strap-hang with rats like Laurie Yates. 1982Barr & York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 100/1 In the Europe Supermarket in Old Brompton Road, or strap-hanging in the tube from Gloucester Road, astonishingly you meet more people you know.
Hence ˈstrap-hanging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1919Electrician LXXXII. 497/2 The somewhat elaborate provision made for ‘strap hanging’. 1920Cycling 5 Feb. p. i (Advt.), The strap-hanging problem is easily solved by the satisfied owner of a Rudge-Whitworth. 1928Daily Express 22 Dec. 7/2 (heading) Straphanging rule dispute. 1945[see keynote v.]. 1957L. Durrell Justine i. 53 Here, where the general impression of British culture suggested parsimony, indigence, intellectual strap⁓hanging—here I would pass the evening alone. 1972C. Fremlin Appointment with Yesterday i. 8 Every strap⁓hanging commuter in London. |