strap-hanging

See also: straphanging

English

Adjective

strap-hanging (not comparable)

1. 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'.

Noun

strap-hanging (uncountable)

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

     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.

Verb

strap-hanging

1. present participle and gerund of strap-hang

References

“strap-hang”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.