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hanger-on

noun as in person who attends the powerful for status or benefit

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If billiards has the reputation of being a pastime for gamblers, hustlers and hangers-on, the female-centric biweekly pool tournament at 4100 Bar offers a friendly, supportive alternative.

Many of the president’s fat-cat hangers-on — including his new Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent — had convinced themselves that Trump wasn’t really the “tariff man” he describes himself as.

Giuliani's attorneys argued that the Trump hanger-on genuinely believed that Freeman and Moss committed election fraud, a point that held no water with Howell.

From Salon

These weren’t groupies or hangers-on, they were friends.

Since he won the election Nov. 5, the habitat for hangers-on has been Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s waterfront Palm Beach playground in Florida, a state famously hospitable to swamps.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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