"straphang" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From strap + hang.",
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      "form": "straphangs",
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      "form": "straphung",
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        {
          "ref": "1932, Great Britain, Parliamentary debates: Official report: Volume 269:",
          "text": "Instead of having people coming from the outskirts, straphanging in omnibuses and trains, working in the centre under congested conditions in badly lit, insanitary buildings[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957, Brian Moore, The Feast of Lupercal:",
          "text": "Unheeding the conductor's warning glare, Mr. Devine straphung, smiling, his lips forming soundless phrases as though he enjoyed a delightful, inaudible conversation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Thomas Boyle, Only the dead know Brooklyn:",
          "text": "He straphung for five stops, pressed on three sides by a young Rastafarian wearing a green-suede pillbox hat, an elderly, tiny Chinese couple, and a coffee-coloured nurse who was literally asleep on her feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 46:",
          "text": "It will take a long time for these commuters to come back. And clearly, from all the evidence we have so far, not many will be 'straphanging' five days per week. Indeed, straphanging itself may be a thing of the past.",
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        "To ride public transport while standing and holding onto a strap."
      ],
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          "stand",
          "stand"
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          "strap",
          "strap"
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        "(intransitive) To ride public transport while standing and holding onto a strap."
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        {
          "word": "strap-hang"
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  "etymology_text": "From strap + hang.",
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      "form": "straphangs",
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    },
    {
      "form": "straphung",
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "straphung",
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        },
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          "ref": "1989, Thomas Boyle, Only the dead know Brooklyn:",
          "text": "He straphung for five stops, pressed on three sides by a young Rastafarian wearing a green-suede pillbox hat, an elderly, tiny Chinese couple, and a coffee-coloured nurse who was literally asleep on her feet.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Investment, not cuts, is how to generate a big 'return to rail'”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 46:",
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        "(intransitive) To ride public transport while standing and holding onto a strap."
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  "word": "straphang"
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