hang out

present singular third person hangs out · participle present hanging out · participle past hung out · past hung out

1. idiomaticintransitiveoftenslangTo spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with somebody.

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

   3 more examples

   He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.

   "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."

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

   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.

   2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2025

   Synonyms: socialize, hang with, roll with

2. idiomaticintransitiveslangTo lodge or reside; to exist.

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

   1836-37, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Pickwick Papers

3. datedinformalTo be unyielding; to hold out.

   The juryman hangs out against an agreement.

4. informalTo crave or desperately want (something).
5. informalTo endure or delay.
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out.

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

   Synonyms: lepak, relax