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Antonyms for hanging out

Grammar : Verb
Spell : hang
Phonetic Transcription : hæŋ

Definition of hanging out

Origin :
  • a fusion of Old English hon "suspend" (transitive, class VII strong verb; past tense heng, past participle hangen), and Old English hangian (weak, intransitive, past tense hangode) "be suspended;" also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja "suspend," and hanga "be suspended." All from Proto-Germanic *khang- (cf. Old Frisian hangia, Dutch hangen, German hängen), from PIE *kank- "to hang" (cf. Gothic hahan, Hittite gang- "to hang," Sanskrit sankate "wavers," Latin cunctari "to delay;" see also second element in Stonehenge). As a method of execution, in late Old English (but originally specifically of crucifixion).
  • Hung emerged as past participle 16c. in northern England dialect, and hanged endured only in legal language (which tends to be conservative) and metaphors extended from it (I'll be hanged). Teen slang sense of "spend time" first recorded 1951; hang around "idle, loiter" is from 1830, and hang out (v.) is from 1811. Hang fire (1781) was originally used of guns that were slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge. To let it all hang out "be relaxed and uninhibited" is from 1967.
  • verb associate with; be residing in
Example sentences :
  • She was thin and quivery, and her tongue was hanging out and her eyes staring.
  • Extract from : « Pluck on the Long Trail » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • He was hanging out of the window, in his bedroom, smoking and pondering.
  • Extract from : « Marriage la mode » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Suspiritos is now in the yard; she is hanging out the clothes.
  • Extract from : « Dona Perfecta » by B. Perez Galdos
  • Along the beach on bamboo racks the nets are hanging out to dry.
  • Extract from : « The Great White Tribe in Filipinia » by Paul T. Gilbert
  • Where was he hanging out now, and what was he doing on the 10th?
  • Extract from : « The Giant's Robe » by F. Anstey
  • What in the world is that hanging out of the colonel's upper window?
  • Extract from : « Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI » by Louisa M. Alcott
  • The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible.
  • Extract from : « Peter and Wendy » by James Matthew Barrie
  • And the licking his father had given him for not hanging out the flag.
  • Extract from : « Tom Slade on a Transport » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • The lily-livered hero was hanging out his true colours at last.
  • Extract from : « Roger Ingleton, Minor » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • And she swung the crane from which the pot was hanging out from the burning turf.
  • Extract from : « By the Barrow River » by Edmund Leamy

Synonyms for hanging out

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