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Definition of "hang around" []

  • To stay, linger or loiter (verb)
  • To spend time or be friends (especially to hang around with someone) (verb)

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Use "hang around" in a sentence
  • "But again, there are various distinctions to consider in that subgroup as well—someone with a teardrop and a cobweb who has gone to AA meetings for forty years is better than someone sporting the drop and the web who smokes crack, is unemployed, and wants to hang around my kid."
  • "Who needed school and to hang around duck-ass kids all day when I was getting all the education I needed from the School of Hard Dick?"
  • "What he had to say was, Well, maybe, but the thing is, I think there was a guy on the bus yesterday who used to hang around with Rudy and Little Ed."
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