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Hang around   /hæŋ ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Hang around

verb
1.
Be about.  Synonyms: footle, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry.  "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"






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"Hang around" Quotes from Famous Books



... only a few of us, an' there's hundreds, mebbe, in thet I.W.W. gang, but we've got to drive them off," he said, doggedly. "There's no tellin' what they'll do if we let them hang around any longer. They know we're weak in numbers. We've got to do some shootin' ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... been said, and probably with considerable truth, that most congressmen would not hang around Washington if it were not for ...
— The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know • Thomas Forsyth Hunt

... my consent," said the rubber king, "for which no one seems to have asked, what can I give my little girl to make her remember her old father? Some diamonds to put on her head, or pearls to hang around her neck, or does she want a vacant lot ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis

... want to know. Tom, we'll just hang around here for a while, until one of the smugglers' airships pass over head. I believe one is due to-night, and that's why Shafton had that paper. It was sent to him to tip him off. He was sneaking up, trying to put your airship out of commission when Koku caught him. These ...
— Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight • Victor Appleton

... you little shrimp!" roared Chase. "Skip! Don't hang around here a second longer or I'll—" and he took a threatening step toward his adversary. The latter was discreet, if not actually a coward. He turned tail and ran twenty paces or more in heartbreaking time; then, realising that he was not pursued, ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon


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