A hanger-on is somebody who stays close to the important for gain. A useless hanger-on.
The word is never kind, and nobody has ever described themselves as one. A hanger-on is tolerated as long as the person they attach to is worth attaching to.
1nounhanger-onSomebody who stays close to the important for gain.
“Every hanger-on disappeared the week the money did.”
hanger-on is a person.
An agent noun from the phrasal verb hang on, in the sense of clinging rather than waiting.
Agent noun of hang on.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire