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Straphanger meaning
A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).
Example sentences (5)
A man pistol-whipped and shot a straphanger in the thigh during a robbery on board a Queens shuttle train over the weekend, police said.
A straphanger has been arrested for allegedly macing a “disorderly” man inside a Midtown subway station late Tuesday, police said.
A straphanger was thumped in the back of the head with a metal object and another rider was whacked with an umbrella on Tuesday in the latest assaults in Big Apple subway stations.
A thief stole the phone off a sleeping straphanger aboard a southbound Q train on Sept. 11.
The victim said she and a friend shared a friendly kiss while taking a Snapchat pic, and it pissed off the E train straphanger as that rode through Queens.