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Princeton's WordNet

  1. loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill aroundverb

    be about

    "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

Wiktionary

  1. hang aroundverb

    to stay, linger or loiter

  2. hang aroundverb

    to spend time or be friends (especially to hang around with someone)

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  1. hang around

    To hang around refers to the act of spending time idly or remaining in a particular place aimlessly, often without any specific purpose or objective. It usually involves doing things in a casual, nonchalant, or leisurely manner, often waiting for someone or something.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hang around in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hang around in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hang around in a Sentence

  1. Johnny Gaudreau:

    We had a ton of opportunities to make it a 4-1 game there at one point, we didn’t and we let them hang around. I thought we were playing well, 5 on 5, but our power play, we have to find a way to put the puck in the net.

  2. Stefano Gatti:

    The radical far-right feels more legitimized and stronger, thus they're more active, twenty years ago you couldn't hang around shouting' Viva il Duce,' there was greater resistance towards extremist themes. The dam barriers have been lowered, so people feel they can freely pour hatred towards Liliana Segre online.

  3. Russell Henley:

    I've played pretty well here so far. Hopefully I can have another good week here. The one thing I've always noticed, what changes for me, or what I am more aware of, is my attitude, i'm a little bit tougher and I'm a little bit easier on myself on this course. Because it's so hard, I know that if I can just hang around and keep making pars, maybe grab a birdie; if I just hang around the best I can, I feel like that's what you have to do.

  4. William Haseltine:

    It means that we have to be on the alert for constant change, this virus is going to respond to whatever we do to control it. We make a drug, it is going to resist it. We make a vaccine, it is going to try to get around it. We stay at home, it is going to figure out how to hang around longer.

  5. Gary Gulman:

    I got a really fun part on that and got to hang around with Amy and Michael [ Rapaport ] and other comedians on the show, and it was really, it was so much fun.


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  • abhängen, rumhängen, herumhängenGerman
  • hengailla, hengata, norkoillaFinnish
  • traînerFrench
  • csellengHungarian
  • rondhangenDutch
  • тусоваться, шляться, встречаться, шататься, дружить, тереться, околачиваться, водиться, ошиваться, слонятьсяRussian
  • hängaSwedish

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    (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    A askant
    B inexpiable
    C tantamount
    D numinous

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