Meanings
present singular third person hangs around · participle present hanging around · participle past hung around · past hung around
- idiomaticTo stay, linger, or loiter.
If you hang around after the show, you can meet the cast.
1 more example
I would have liked to have hung around in Birmingham, but my connections are tight owing to a points failure, and I make the CrossCountry Class 170 to Derby by the skin of my teeth.
2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 57 - idiomaticTo spend time or be friends. (especially to hang around with someone)
My daughter likes to hang around with older kids after school.
1 more example
Oh well uh, you might think I'm crazy / To hang around with you / Or maybe you think I'm lucky / To have somethin' to do
1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars
Synonyms & antonyms
verbbe about a place without any apparent purpose
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 逗留, 混
- 逗留 (dòuliú)to stay, linger or loiter
- 混 (hùn)to spend time or be friends
Czech potloukat se
- potloukat seto stay, linger or loiter
Dutch rondhangen, rondhangen
- rondhangento stay, linger or loiter
- rondhangento spend time or be friends
Finnish norkoilla, hengata
- norkoillato stay, linger or loiter
- hengatato spend time or be friends
- hengaillato spend time or be friends
French traîner, traîner
- traînerto stay, linger or loiter
- traînerto spend time or be friends
German abhängen, herumhängen
- abhängento spend time or be friends
- herumhängento spend time or be friends
- rumhängento spend time or be friends
Hungarian cselleng
- csellengto stay, linger or loiter
Polish szwendać się, włóczyć się
- szwendać sięto stay, linger or loiter
- włóczyć sięto stay, linger or loiter
- wałkonić sięto stay, linger or loiter
- pałętać sięto stay, linger or loiter
- wałęsać sięto stay, linger or loiter
- spędzać czasto spend time or be friends
- spędzić czasto spend time or be friends
- zadawać sięto spend time or be friends
Romanian își petrece timpul cu, sta cu
- își petrece timpul cuto spend time or be friends
- sta cuto spend time or be friends
Russian шля́ться, слоня́ться
- шля́ться (šljátʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- слоня́ться (slonjátʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- окола́чиваться (okoláčivatʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- шата́ться (šatátʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- тере́ться (terétʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- ошива́ться (ošivátʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- тусова́ться (tusovátʹsja)to stay, linger or loiter
- встреча́ться (vstrečátʹsja)to spend time or be friends
- дружи́ть (družítʹ)to spend time or be friends
- води́ться (vodítʹsja)to spend time or be friends
Cite this entry
hang around. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hang%20around
“hang around.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hang%20around. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hang around,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hang%20around.
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