hang around

verb

hung around; hanging around; hangs around

Synonyms of hang around next

intransitive, informal

: to pass time idly or in relaxing or socializing

spent the day just hanging around with her friends

: to stay in or at a place for a period of time

had to hang around for over an hour, waiting for the bus

She didn't feel like hanging around at the club afterward …—

David Calder

transitive informal : to pass time or stay in or at (a place) or in the company of (someone)

hung around the house all day

My mother doesn't want me hanging around the park alone.—

Judy Blume

When he was 10 years old, Lester taught him-self to windsurf by hanging around the Europeans and Canadian tourists who rented boards on the beach at Varadero.—

Sam Moses

Examples of hang around in a Sentence

if you hang around until my husband gets home, you can meet him

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The home is most definitely spooky and just might have a few spirits still hanging around, perhaps trying to solve the mystery of exactly what happened there. —

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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024 Lewis-Martin stood beside him, a large cross hanging around her neck. —

Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024 Jim Allen MacArthur Park Time to go fishing The Angels are like an albatross hung around the neck of Mike Trout. —

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