Hanger-on synonyms

hăng'ər-ŏn', -ôn'

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sponge
(Slang) A person who drinks large amounts of alcohol.
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rough-cast (related)
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malcontent (related)
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leech
A person who clings to another to gain some personal advantage; parasite
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nuisance
One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother:
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parasite
(Biology) an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
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dependent (related)
A person who depends on someone else for existence, support, etc.
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sycophant (related)
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
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adherent
Adherent is defined as a person who follows something or someone, like an cause or a strong leader.
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dangler
One who dangles about others, especially after women.
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dependant
(US) Common misspelling of dependent.
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fawner
One who fawns; a sycophant.
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flunky
A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey.
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follower
Young cattle.
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groupie
A fan who follows a rock group around on tours.
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heeler
One who heels shoes.
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lackey
A male servant of low rank, usually in some sort of livery or uniform
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minion
(Typography, uncountable) A size of type smaller than brevier but larger than nonpareil, roughly equivalent to 7pt.
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satellite
An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body, as a device for reflecting or relaying radio signals or for capturing images.
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scrounger
One who scrounges.
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sponger
A person who cleans, etc. with a sponge
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tagtail
An unwanted hanger-on.
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toadeater
A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant or flatterer.
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toady
A servile flatterer; sycophant, esp. one who does distasteful or unprincipled things in order to gain favor
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vassal
The definition of a vassal was someone in feudal times who received protection and land from a lord in return for allegiance and performing military and other duties, or someone who is subordinate.
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votary
A devotee of a particular religion or cult
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bloodsucker
A person who is intrusively or overly dependent upon another; a parasite.
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freeloader
(Informal) A person who habitually imposes on others for free food, lodging, etc.; sponger
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dependence (related)
An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.
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tagalong
One that persistently follows another:
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red-painted (related)
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dull-looking (related)
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careerist (related)
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Hanger-on Sentence Examples

  • As a hanger-on in great houses he had little time for systematic work, and he wrote the "Lives" in the early morning while his hosts were sleeping off the effects of the dissipation of the night before.

  • The term parasite, from meaning a "hanger-on," has been transferred to any living creature which lives on another one.

  • Adrienne grabbed a large stainless steel spoon from its hanger on the wall and primped at her distorted reflection.

  • It is no longer the merry, saucy hanger-on of the homestead, but is become the suspicious thief, shunning the gaze of man, and knowing that danger may lurk in every bush.

  • Remedy defect in hanger on left side of trailing bogie.

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