Straphanger

Definitions

A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).

Equivalents

Examples

“For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work⟳ […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have⟳ seen these things happening.”

“The number⟳ of elevators has grown significantly since 1990, when the Americans With Disabilities Act set⟳ off a transformation of the aging transit system. For the disabled, the changes promised to open⟳ doors, while thousands of other straphangers—parents with strollers, older travelers—expected a small dose of convenience in a wearying city.”

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