hang around


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Verb1.hang around - be abouthang around - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
footle, lallygag, loiter, lollygag, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry, lounge, lurk, linger, loaf
be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
prowl, lurch - loiter about, with no apparent aim
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hang

verb
1. To fasten or be fastened at one point with no support from below:
dangle, depend, sling, suspend, swing.
2. To execute by suspending by the neck:
gibbet.
Informal: string up.
Slang: swing.
3. To remain stationary over a place or object:
hover, poise.
phrasal verb
hang around
1. To visit regularly:
frequent, haunt, repair, resort.
Slang: hang out.
2. To be with as a companion:
associate, consort, fraternize, hobnob, run (around), troop.
Slang: hang out.
Idiom: rub elbows.
phrasal verb
hang on
1. To be determined by or contingent on something unknown, uncertain, or changeable:
depend on (or upon), hang upon, hinge on (or upon), rest on (or upon), turn on, turn upon.
2. To continue without halting despite difficulties or setbacks:
carry on, go on, keep on, persevere, persist.
Idioms: hang in there, keep going , keep it up.
phrasal verb
hang out
1. Slang. To visit regularly:
frequent, hang around, haunt, repair, resort.
2. Slang. To be with as a companion:
associate, consort, fraternize, hang around, hobnob, run (around), troop.
Idiom: rub elbows.
phrasal verb
hang over
To be imminent:
brew, impend, loom, lower, menace, overhang, threaten.
phrasal verb
hang up
To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired:
delay, detain, hold up, lag, retard, set back, slow (down or up), stall.
phrasal verb
hang upon
To be determined by or contingent on something unknown, uncertain, or changeable:
depend on (or upon), hang on, hinge on (or upon), rest on (or upon), turn on, turn upon.
noun
Informal. The proper method for doing, using, or handling something:
feel, knack, trick.
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Some would hang around the necks, or rather on the breasts of their horses, the most precious ornaments they had obtained from the white men; others interwove feathers in their manes and tails.
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You won't go back to your ships and sea; therefore, you'll hang around these pest-holes of cities until your bones are rotten, and then you'll die."
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None of my friends have an ASBO but if we are out we have nothing to do so have to hang around on the streets.
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