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strap-hanging en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
   • 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'. 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17:

strap-hanging en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The action of hanging on to a strap or rail on public transport.
   • 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. 1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:

strap-hanging en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of strap-hang
   form of strap-hang