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Hanger-on   /hˈæŋər-ɑn/   Listen
Hanger-on

noun
1.
Someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along.  Synonym: tagalong.





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"Hanger-on" Quotes from Famous Books



... the scientific ranks for yourself. If you do not, you had better stick to commerce. Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man, who, as the Scotch proverb says, in "trying to make a spoon spoils a horn," and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley


Words linked to "Hanger-on" :   follower


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