hang out

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæŋ ˈaʊt/

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Verb

hang out (third-person singular simple present hangs out, present participle hanging out, simple past and past participle hung out)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To spend time with somebody.

   After the film, do you want to go hang out?

   He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.

   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxiii. 177:

     "I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go."

   • 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎:

     The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.

2. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To lodge or reside.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1837, →OCLC:

     'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?' / Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.

3. (dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.

   The juryman hangs out against an agreement.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang,‎ out.

   When a dog pants, its tongue often hangs out of its mouth.

Synonyms

• lepak (Malaysia, Singapore)
• relax

Derived terms

• hangout

Related terms

• hang around
• hang with

Translations

See also

• hang out one's shingle
• hang out to dry

Anagrams

• Aughton, Tonghua, tohunga