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. ''