Hang Around

Definition: Hang Around

Hang Around

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hang Around

Crosswords: Hang Around

Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

That's a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Malcolm Johnson; Budd Schulberg)

If you're a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

All you did was hang around and eat our eggs. (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas)

I mean, you got fired and you still hang around like a big loser, why can't he? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you ("Downtown"; performing artist: Petula Clark)

Hang around 'til quarter after twelve ("We Got the Beat"; performing artist: The Go-Go's)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• "Don't Hang Around With the Wrong Crowd!" (What to Do When Your Mom or Dad Says) (reference)

• What to Do When Your Mom or Dad Says "Don't Hang Around With the Wrong Crowd!" (Survival Series for Kids) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hang Around (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "hang around": hang around for a while ♦ To hang around. Additional references.

Albanian

sorollatem (drone, linger, mosey, Potter), sillem kot (lie around, loiter, mosey, muck about). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تسكع (gad about, hang about, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ухажвам (court, hang about, romance, rush, spark, woo), шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond), мотам се (hang about, lallygag, linger). (various references)

Chinese 

浪蕩 (to hang around, to loiter). (various references)

Czech

postávat (hang about, wait about). (various references)

Finnish

maleksia (loaf, loiter). (various references)

French

tourner en ronde, se traîner, rôder. (various references)

German

herumlungern (hang about, hover about, hover around, idle about, idle around, loaf about, loaf around, loiter, loiter about, loiter around, mooch, to hang about, to mooch), herumhängen (hover about, hover around, loll about, loll around, slouch), halten (arrest, born, borne, cease, clamp, come to a halt, cut off, give, halt, hang onto, held, hold, hold on to, hold up, holding, keep, keep back, kept, last, maintain, make, pull up, put down, put off, retain, run, save, shut off, stay, stick, stop, take, to bite, to clamp, to grip, to hold, to retain, treat, turn off, uphold, wear well), hängen (be behind, be caught, be involved, be on, be stuck, be vulnerable, connect, droop, fill, hang, hang fire, hanged, hanging, hitch up, slouch, stoop, to hang), sich herumtreiben (hang about, hang out, loaf about, loaf around, loiter, to be on the gad), sich herumdrücken (dodge, skulk), bummeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, gallivant, goof, idle, idle about, idle around, loiter, poke about, poke around, roam, saunter, slack, stroll, take it easy, to stroll, wander). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתובב ללא מעש�" (hang about). (various references)

Hungarian

kószál (fool about, gad about, Maunder, ramble, roam, rove, stroll, to fool about, to fool around, to go on the loose, to hang about, to hang around, to loll, to lollop, to lounge, to maunder, to ramble, to roam about, to rove, to saunter, to stroll, to trollop about), cselleng (dawdle, hang about, hover, lounge about, straggle, to dawdle, to hang about, to hang around, to laze, to lop about, to sheer, to trapes). (various references)

Italian

ciondolare (dangle, loll, Mike, slouch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぶどう�' (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, Japanese beech tree, lazily, loaf, loiter, soft and flabby, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing, to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing, wine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶらつく (to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing). (various references)

Pig Latin

anghay arounday.(various references)

Portuguese

enforcar (gibber, Gibbon, halting, hang). (various references)

Romanian

vagabonda (be on the tramp, bum, mooch about, rove, run about, straggle, stray). (various references)

Russian 

держаться неподалеку (hang about). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

džabalebariti (hang about, lallygag). (various references)

Spanish

haraganear (hang about, idle, loaf), hacer esperar, tener esperanzas (trust), rondar (hang about, haunt, patrol, prowl), no hacer nada (hang about, have a good mike, knock around), merodear (hang about, maraud, prowl), frecuentar (frequent, hang about, haunt, live in, resort to), esperar (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, due, expect, foresee, hang about, hang on, hold off, hold on, hope, look, look for, look out for, stand about, stand around, stay, stay for, Tarry, think, trust, wait, wait about, wait around, wait for, watch), andar (carry, come off, footing, function, get along, get up, go, go about, go around, hang about, home in on, lark, live, pad, perambulate, stroll, tough, tramp, trip, walk, wend one's way). (various references)

Swedish

driva omkring (drift, gad about, gad around, gallivant, hang about, loiter). (various references)

Turkish

sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), gezinmek (bat around, get around, go for a stroll, go for a walk, hang about, mosey, perambulate, promenade, roam, rove, rove about, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, walk about, walk around, wander, wander about), beklemek (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, expect, hang about, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look for, look forward to, mark time, stand by, stay, Tarry, wait, wait for, watch), aylak aylak dolaşmak (bum, bum around, fool about, fool around, hang about, idle about, roam about, saunter, slop around, slope around), üşenmek (hang about). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: aground, handgun, nondrug.

-4 letters: adnoun, angora, anuran, around, dharna, dhurna, dourah, dragon, goanna, ground, hadron, hagdon, hangar, organa, ourang, randan, unhand, unhang.

-5 letters: aargh, adorn, agora, argon, donga, donna, dough, doura, gonad, gourd, grana, grand, groan, guano, guard, hoard, hogan, honan, honda, hound, orang, organ, radon, rough, round, ruana.

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