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hanger-on

noun

Etymology

Agent noun of hang on.

Definitions

  1. Someone who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service.

    • Her love was sought, I do aver, / By twenty beaux and more; / The king himself has follow'd her / When she has walk'd before. / But now her wealth and finery fled, / Her hangers-on cut short all […]
    • The Rhymney (51 route miles), once an impecunious hanger-on of the Taff Vale, had enjoyed its own route through Caerphilly into Cardiff since 1871, [...].

  2. An onsetter.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA