hang out
See also: hangout
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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 with somebody.
- After the film, do you want to go hang out?
- He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxiii. 177:
- "I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go."
- 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To lodge or reside.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- 'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?' / Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.
- (dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.
- The juryman hangs out against an agreement.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out.
- When a dog pants, its tongue often hangs out of its mouth.
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to do nothing in particular
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