Antonyms for hangs around
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hang |
| Phonetic Transcription : hæŋ |
Definition of hangs around
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
- verb associate
- I can't help it if he hangs around, and I can't order him off.
- Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather
- This Newfoundland fog often hangs around for days, replied her sister.
- Extract from : « Gypsies of the Air » by Bess Moyer
- All the time he hangs around here, and then he goes to work and gets married.
- Extract from : « Object: matrimony » by Montague Glass
- He hangs around hydroponics a lot and he gets a daily ration of vitamins.
- Extract from : « Once a Greech » by Evelyn E. Smith
- You just tell him for me that he'll get his 'hire' all right if he hangs around me.
- Extract from : « The Palace of Darkened Windows » by Mary Hastings Bradley
- He is a great big red-haired man, and he hangs around that restaurant that is run by a man called Joe Canuck.
- Extract from : « The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers » by Claude A. Labelle
- He just hangs around the house and musses things up and won't do nothin' they tell him.
- Extract from : « Mortmain » by Arthur Cheny Train
- Sometimes he hangs around the Catharine Street joint till late.
- Extract from : « The Gray Phantom's Return » by Herman Landon
- On his round face there was always a smile like that which hangs around the jaws of a pike—only more humorous.
- Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
- Beneath this silver cloud that hangs around the mountain, there is an angry brow; the demons of war are there.
- Extract from : « Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French » by Samuel Gibbs French
Synonyms for hangs around
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