"hang around" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hang around.ogg [Australia] Forms: hangs around [present, singular, third-person], hanging around [participle, present], hung around [participle, past], hung around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hang<,,hung> around}} hang around (third-person singular simple present hangs around, present participle hanging around, simple past and past participle hung around)
  1. (idiomatic) To stay, linger, or loiter. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to stay, linger or loiter): potloukat se [imperfective] (Czech), rondhangen (Dutch), norkoilla (Finnish), traîner (French), cselleng (Hungarian), шля́ться (šljátʹsja) (Russian), слоня́ться (slonjátʹsja) (Russian), окола́чиваться (okoláčivatʹsja) (Russian), шата́ться (šatátʹsja) (Russian), тере́ться (terétʹsja) (Russian), ошива́ться (ošivátʹsja) (Russian), тусова́ться (tusovátʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-hang_around-en-verb-fVqTe65S Disambiguation of 'to stay, linger or loiter': 96 4
  2. (idiomatic) To spend time or be friends. (especially to hang around with someone) Tags: idiomatic Translations (to spend time or be friends): rondhangen (Dutch), hengata (Finnish), hengailla (Finnish), traîner (French), abhängen [slang] (German), herumhängen (German), rumhängen (German), встреча́ться (vstrečátʹsja) (alt: с s) (Russian), дружи́ть (družítʹ) (alt: с s) (Russian), води́ться (vodítʹsja) (alt: с s) (Russian), družiti se [imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), provoditi vrijeme s [imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-hang_around-en-verb-thTw1C8I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (around) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (around): 9 91 Disambiguation of 'to spend time or be friends': 1 99

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hang around meaning in English (5.7kB)

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      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
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      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
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      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
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      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
      "word": "шля́ться"
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      "word": "слоня́ться"
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      "word": "окола́чиваться"
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      "word": "шата́ться"
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      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
      "word": "тере́ться"
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    {
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ošivátʹsja",
      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
      "word": "ошива́ться"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tusovátʹsja",
      "sense": "to stay, linger or loiter",
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      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
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    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
      "word": "hengata"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
      "word": "hengailla"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
      "word": "traîner"
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      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
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      "word": "abhängen"
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      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
      "word": "herumhängen"
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      "sense": "to spend time or be friends",
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