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hang around

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Verb1.hang around - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
footle, lallygag, loiter, lollygag, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry, lounge, lurk, linger, loaf
be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
prowl, lurch - loiter about, with no apparent aim


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Some would hang around the necks, or rather on the breasts of their horses, the most precious ornaments they had obtained from the white men; others interwove feathers in their manes and tails.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
You won't go back to your ships and sea; therefore, you'll hang around these pest-holes of cities until your bones are rotten, and then you'll die.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
There shall it flame for ages, making a noonday of midnight, glittering on the suits of armor, the banners, and escutcheons, that hang around the wall, and keeping bright the memory of heroes.
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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