- hanger on
- Synonyms and related words:adherent, appendage, attendant, barnacle, bloodsucker, buff, bystander, cavaliere servente, courtier, creature, dangler, dependent, disciple, dummy, fan, feudatory, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, freeloader, gillie, goon, hatchet man, heeler, henchman, homager, homme de cour, inferior, jackal, lackey, leech, liege, liege man, lounge lizard, man, minion, myrmidon, parasite, partisan, peon, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, retainer, satellite, sectary, serf, servant, shadow, slave, spectator, spiv, sponge, sponger, stooge, subordinate, successor, sucker, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, thug, trainbearer, underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, ward heeler, yeoman
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.