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Synonyms for hang around

Grammar : Verb
Spell : hang
Phonetic Transcription : hæŋ

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Définition of hang 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
Example sentences :
  • How long you goin' to hang around fixin' up in that dressin'-room?
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
  • She told me something about an artist that used to hang around Tesla.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • I just hang around for an hour and waits for them to come out again, see?
  • Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
  • A text will hang around them, like a perfume, when all the rest of our preaching is forgotten.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • "But you got to come along and hang around outside while I'm doing it," I insists.
  • Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford
  • "I don't want to hang around you," he began as he turned to go.
  • Extract from : « Three People » by Pansy
  • I'm tired, too, of all the sycophants, liars and fools who hang around.
  • Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
  • Looking at Ma's set jaw he promised to hang around that night.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
  • If old Musq'oosis is no relation, what does he hang around for?
  • Extract from : « The Huntress » by Hulbert Footner
  • He might as well take his medicine and not hang around you, Eve.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey
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