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Definition 2024
hang_out
hang out
See also: hangout
English
Verb
hang out (third-person singular simple present hangs out, present participle hanging out, simple past and past participle hung out)
- (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To spend time doing nothing in particular.
- After this is over, do you want to go hang out?
- He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- 'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?'
Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.
- 'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?'
- 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
- The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.
- (dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.
- The juryman hangs out against an agreement.
- Used other than as an idiom: see hang, out.
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to do nothing in particular
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