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Definition of hanger-on in English: hanger-onnounPlural hangers-onˌhaŋərˈɒnˈˌhæŋər ˈˌɑn A person who associates with another person or a group in a sycophantic manner or for the purpose of gaining some personal advantage. the shysters, the freebooters, the hangers-on who traditionally take advantage of champions Example sentencesExamples - And like those spectators there were polarized groups, followers and hangers-on to the Candidates.
- But if you're tagging along for the adoration you get by being her bud, eventually people will see that you're just a hanger-on.
- Freeloaders and hangers-on from the union's various committees have been a fact of life on away trips with Scotland for a long time and at times their brass neck had to be seen to be appreciated.
- Chris and Emma got married among friends, family and associated hangers-on on Saturday night.
- It has been due to the realities of actually being in government and, less healthily, the proliferation of advisers and hangers-on who had no previous sympathy with Labour, new or old.
- But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes, spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time.
- It's the world of an apparently mad rock star who's bored with it all and so contemptuous of the hangers-on that surround him, he speaks only to himself.
- The Continental became the meeting place for journalists covering the Vietnam War and for all the multi-plumed hangers-on anxious to make a dollar out of chaos.
- We shared a dressing rooms with some of the big stars, but many had their own hangers-on so you couldn't really get near them.
- The privileged royal family includes thousands of members, surrounded by tens of thousands of retainers and hangers-on.
- Thousands of journalists, TV producers and sundry hangers-on depend for their livelihoods on a good election.
- Under the ancien régime, no self-respecting local would be seen in the glitzy hotel bars, as only the party faithful and their gangster hangers-on frequented them.
- Over hedge and fence they race, hounds in the lead, redcoats and hangers-on following on horseback.
- There's nothing worse than a bunch of old hangers-on that get in the way of young people running for office.
- I don't want to be made to ‘feel better’ about the way in which a clique of developers, and their hangers-on, carve Belfast up amongst them.
- He even has a pop at the police for failing to clamp down on the hangers-on who follow parades.
- Yet far worse, this self-electing oligarchy, largely consisting of senior owners, military types and their hangers-on, seem fatally compromised.
- We aren't paid the vast sums of money, we aren't as high profile, we don't have as much media intrusion or the sort of hangers-on that can be associated with Premiership stars.
- This year, many of the hangers-on won't be hanging around.
- There were always crazy hangers-on lounging around, but the people who worked with Andy formed a tight circle.
Synonyms follower, flunkey, toady, camp follower, sycophant, fawner, parasite, leech henchman, minion, lackey, vassal, dependant, retainer, acolyte, underling North American cohort informal groupie, sponger, freeloader, passenger, sidekick British informal ligger archaic liegeman, pursuivant
Definition of hanger-on in US English: hanger-onnounˈˌhaNGər ˈˌänˈˌhæŋər ˈˌɑn A person who associates with another person or a group in a sycophantic manner or for the purpose of gaining some personal advantage. he was a hanger-on who used to come around and drink with Father Example sentencesExamples - We shared a dressing rooms with some of the big stars, but many had their own hangers-on so you couldn't really get near them.
- But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes, spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time.
- Freeloaders and hangers-on from the union's various committees have been a fact of life on away trips with Scotland for a long time and at times their brass neck had to be seen to be appreciated.
- The privileged royal family includes thousands of members, surrounded by tens of thousands of retainers and hangers-on.
- There's nothing worse than a bunch of old hangers-on that get in the way of young people running for office.
- Over hedge and fence they race, hounds in the lead, redcoats and hangers-on following on horseback.
- It has been due to the realities of actually being in government and, less healthily, the proliferation of advisers and hangers-on who had no previous sympathy with Labour, new or old.
- I don't want to be made to ‘feel better’ about the way in which a clique of developers, and their hangers-on, carve Belfast up amongst them.
- We aren't paid the vast sums of money, we aren't as high profile, we don't have as much media intrusion or the sort of hangers-on that can be associated with Premiership stars.
- There were always crazy hangers-on lounging around, but the people who worked with Andy formed a tight circle.
- But if you're tagging along for the adoration you get by being her bud, eventually people will see that you're just a hanger-on.
- He even has a pop at the police for failing to clamp down on the hangers-on who follow parades.
- Chris and Emma got married among friends, family and associated hangers-on on Saturday night.
- It's the world of an apparently mad rock star who's bored with it all and so contemptuous of the hangers-on that surround him, he speaks only to himself.
- Thousands of journalists, TV producers and sundry hangers-on depend for their livelihoods on a good election.
- Yet far worse, this self-electing oligarchy, largely consisting of senior owners, military types and their hangers-on, seem fatally compromised.
- This year, many of the hangers-on won't be hanging around.
- And like those spectators there were polarized groups, followers and hangers-on to the Candidates.
- Under the ancien régime, no self-respecting local would be seen in the glitzy hotel bars, as only the party faithful and their gangster hangers-on frequented them.
- The Continental became the meeting place for journalists covering the Vietnam War and for all the multi-plumed hangers-on anxious to make a dollar out of chaos.
Synonyms follower, flunkey, toady, camp follower, sycophant, fawner, parasite, leech
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