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Definition of Straphanging
1. straphang [v] - See also: straphang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straphanging
Literary usage of Straphanging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reasonable Life: Being Hints for Men and Women by Arnold Bennett (1907)
"It is a principle of daily application, affecting the daily round in its entirety,
from the straphanging on the District Railway in the morning to the ..."
2. American Municipal Progress by Charles Zueblin, Helen Bernice Sweeny (1916)
"The rustic has a great white way with him and the city dweller, straphanging or
speeding up on the boulevard, has no patience with urbanity. ..."
3. American Municipal Progress by Charles Zueblin, Helen Bernice Sweeny (1916)
"The rustic has a great white way with him and the city dweller, straphanging or
speeding up on the boulevard, has no patience with urbanity. ..."
4. Planning Problems of Town, City, and Region: Papers and Discussions at the by American Civic Association (1916)
"... the adoption of the automobile by the wealthier "upper" half means the sanction
of straphanging for the less fortunate, but rather more numerous "lower" ..."
5. Selected Articles on Municipal Ownership by Julia Emily Johnsen (1918)
"straphanging, unsafe water, low or medium light standards, inadequate or deteriorated
equipment are not uncommon. ..."
6. Selected Articles on Municipal Ownership by Julia Emily Johnsen (1918)
"2. Economies are made in service for the benefit of stockholders. a. straphanging,
unsafe water, low or medium light standards, inadequate or deteriorated ..."
7. The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight Through Montenegro and Serbia by Jan Gordon, Cora Gordon (1916)
"... men were quarrelling but all had their faces turned towards the road to Rashka,
which we realized would be as full as at straphanging time in the Tube. ..."
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