strap-hanging
See also: straphanging
English
Adjective
strap-hanging (not comparable)
- Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17:
- 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'.
Verb
strap-hanging
- present participle of strap-hang
References
“strap-hang” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.