Definition of "hanger-on" []

• A sycophant; a parasite. (noun)

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• "Co-founder Eduardo Saverin's girlfriend is a psychotic and needy hanger-on."
• "The unyielding scenario here proposed a story of roommates living the high life, which ended in sexual games involving the American woman and her Italian lover, who had joined forces with another man, a local hanger-on."
• "Neither had the one hanger-on ever heard of Pat Glendon."