HANG AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hang around mean? 

• HANG AROUND (verb)
  The verb HANG AROUND has 1 sense:

1. be about

  Familiarity information: HANG AROUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANG AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be about

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry

Context example:

Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

Hypernyms (to "hang around" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hang around"):

lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

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.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)