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hanger-on

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Noun
 : 
hang=er-on

CIDE DICTIONARY

hanger-onn. 
     One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted.  Goldsmith.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

hanger-on

Flatterer

N flatterer, adulator, eulogist, euphemist, optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher, toady, toadeater, sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, flaneur, proneur, puffer, touter, claqueur, clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work, parasite, hanger-on, yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser, brown-noser, teacher's pet, pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.


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