hang about

Speech parts

1. hang about - Verb

2. hang about - Interjection

Meaning

(informal) To linger, loiter, or stay.
Synonyms: hang around, hang out
If you hang about after the show, you can meet the cast.

(informal) Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with.
Synonyms: hang around, hang out
My daughter likes to hang about with older kids after school.

hang about

(UK, colloquial) wait a minute; hold on

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In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. George Orwell

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound. Martin Amis

I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness? E. M. Forster

Never one to hang about, the Real president was adamant he had to have the hotseat filled before June 14. On Tuesday, he decided Lopetegui would come in. But 24 hours later, out went Lopetegui, sacked by the man who hung up his boots in south Lanarkshire. Source: Internet

Nor did we see anything that might give one a good reason to 'leave the desk at lunchtime', and certainly not to hang about in the evening or weekend. Source: Internet

No wonder the delivery driver didn’t hang about for my returned plastic bags. Source: Internet

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