straphanger

IPA: strˈæfʌŋɝ

noun

  • A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).
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Examples of "straphanger" in Sentences

  • He's just an enthusiastic straphanger that volunteered.
  • UPTOWN -- As we go around a corner, a straphanger t ...
  • The Straphanger article is prominently linked from the navigation box.
  • The video, which went viral Monday, was captured by a straphanger Friday at the 181st Street Station in Washington Heights.
  • It's been at least a generation since the majority of the newspaper audience hailed from the lunch pail and straphanger crowd.
  • To make a 30-day pass more cost-effective than a pay-per-ride card, a straphanger now needs to use it at least 50 times a month.
  • The confrontation, between Sgt. Kevin Hayes and Daily News reporter Wil Cruz, occurred on Nov. 21, just hours after a crazed straphanger fatally knifed a stranger aboard a midtown D train.
  • This situation is clearly less than ideal for elected officials, terrible for a city's environmental footprint, and worst of all for the everyday straphanger or bus rider who is already struggling to make ends meet.
  • Even there's one lonesome straphanger or passed-out reveler riding home at 3 in the morning, the subway's capacity expenses are basically unchanged; a discounted off-peak fare only makes the subway more competitive with taxis and cars.
  • New York City straphanger Stella Lombardi, on accused bioterrorists Larry Wayne Harris and William Leavitt, responding to rumors that they'd been planning to release a toxic bomb in the city's subway system "" If I don't work hard, I will go to hell, and we already have Stalin and Lenin very well placed there, so they may torture me. ''

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