Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal)To linger, loiter, or stay.

    If you hang about after the show, you can meet the cast.

  2. (informal)Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with.

    My daughter likes to hang about with older kids after school.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Don't care a hang about it.

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  2. She's got a hang-up about me being perfect.

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  3. You don't hang about.

    deDu verlierst keine Zeit. — kolonjano

  4. It is not appropriate for us to hang about or gossip here while we are waiting for the master.

  5. I saw her little calico dress, her little brown bare feet, the ringlets of yellow hair hung about her cheeks.

Forms

hangs about, hanging about, hung about, hung about
Base formhang about · to hang about
3rd person singularhangs about
Present participlehanging about
Past simplehung about
Past participlehung about

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhang about
he, she, ithangs about

Past simpleLesson

all personshung about

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hung about
he, she, ithas hung about

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hang about

Phrasal verbs

12 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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