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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



... distance from the city, and general management, that at last that autocrat had said: "See here, Doyle, if you want to go up there just say so and I'll send you as car hostler with the next batch. I'll give you a note to the farm superintendent. Guess he'll let you hang around for a ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

... on myself, I suppose. Well, now I tell you I'm not going to hang around in this one-horse town all my life to please grandfather ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... won his way into my foolish heart. I used him as a model frequently, and let him hang around me in my idle moments. I even gave him clay to play with, and he played with it to some effect, his great fault—and it is a very great one—being a tendency to do things in miniature. I reproved him good-naturedly—for me, and he so far improved ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain

... "If those who can benefit our people will hang around places where they are not needed, they may expect to be discouraged. * * * Here is ignorance to be instructed; a race who needs to be helped up to higher planes of thought and action; and whether we are hindered or helped, we should try to be true to the commission God has written ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... all ordinary skulls, and in whose career its original owner might be not unreasonably expected to cherish some interest or to have followed its fortunes with some little attention. Untold possibilities for the vindication of Spiritualistic truth and power hang around it, should there be an unwavering agreement by all Spiritual authorities, as to the circumstances, when alive, of its original owner. Surely, I concluded, the translated inhabitants of the 'summer-land' cannot have doffed the homespun ...
— Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University • The Seybert Commission


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