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{
"forms": [
{
"form": "hangs about",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hanging about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hung about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hung about",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hang<,,hung> about"
},
"expansion": "hang about (third-person singular simple present hangs about, present participle hanging about, simple past and past participle hung about)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you hang about after the show, you can meet the cast.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 253",
"text": "He was taken into the mountain by the fairies, and had been with them for many years, and at last they wanted him to marry their daughter, who was always hanging about after him.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To linger, loiter, or stay."
],
"id": "en-hang_about-en-verb-nfdDVQyH",
"links": [
[
"linger",
"linger"
],
[
"loiter",
"loiter"
],
[
"stay",
"stay#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To linger, loiter, or stay."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "hang out"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "norkoilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "roikkua"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "cselleng"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "lézeng"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "desideo"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se móta",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́та"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 8",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se mótka",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́тка"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "My daughter likes to hang about with older kids after school.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
],
"id": "en-hang_about-en-verb-Wj0kyK6b",
"links": [
[
"spend",
"spend#Verb"
],
[
"time",
"time#Noun"
],
[
"friends",
"friend#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "hang out"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "hengailla"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "viettää aikaansa"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se drúži",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "се дру́жи"
}
]
}
],
"word": "hang about"
}
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "51 11 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"wait a minute; hold on"
],
"id": "en-hang_about-en-intj-0leigDRp",
"links": [
[
"wait a minute",
"wait a minute"
],
[
"hold on",
"hold on"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, colloquial) wait a minute; hold on"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"word": "hang about"
}
{
"categories": [
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
"English verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "hangs about",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hanging about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hung about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hung about",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hang<,,hung> about"
},
"expansion": "hang about (third-person singular simple present hangs about, present participle hanging about, simple past and past participle hung about)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you hang about after the show, you can meet the cast.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 253",
"text": "He was taken into the mountain by the fairies, and had been with them for many years, and at last they wanted him to marry their daughter, who was always hanging about after him.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To linger, loiter, or stay."
],
"links": [
[
"linger",
"linger"
],
[
"loiter",
"loiter"
],
[
"stay",
"stay#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To linger, loiter, or stay."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "hang out"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "My daughter likes to hang about with older kids after school.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
],
"links": [
[
"spend",
"spend#Verb"
],
[
"time",
"time#Noun"
],
[
"friends",
"friend#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hang around"
},
{
"word": "hang out"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"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",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "desideo"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se móta",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́та"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se mótka",
"sense": "to linger, loiter, or stay",
"word": "се мо́тка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "hengailla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "viettää aikaansa"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se drúži",
"sense": "to spend time or be friends with",
"word": "се дру́жи"
}
],
"word": "hang about"
}
{
"categories": [
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
"English verbs"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"wait a minute; hold on"
],
"links": [
[
"wait a minute",
"wait a minute"
],
[
"hold on",
"hold on"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, colloquial) wait a minute; hold on"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"word": "hang about"
}
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