See hang about on Wiktionary
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"text": "The stranger kept hanging about just inside the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse.",
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"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 572:",
"text": "Although unusual in the Dublin area, he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.",
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"To linger, loiter, or stay."
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"(informal) To linger, loiter, or stay."
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"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "norkoilla"
},
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"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "cselleng"
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"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
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"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
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"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́та"
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"Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
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"(informal) Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
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"_dis1": "5 95",
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"word": "hengailla"
},
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"wait a minute; hold on"
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"(UK, colloquial) wait a minute; hold on"
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"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 572:",
"text": "Although unusual in the Dublin area, he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.",
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"To linger, loiter, or stay."
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"(informal) Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "norkoilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "roikkua"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "cselleng"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "lézeng"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "desideo"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se móta",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́та"
},
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"roman": "se mótka",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́тка"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "hengailla"
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"word": "viettää aikaansa"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "se drúži",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "се дру́жи"
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"word": "hang about"
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"wait a minute; hold on"
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