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  1. loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill aroundverb

    be about

    "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

    Synonyms:
    loll around, loaf, bushwhack, bum about, hover, arse about, lounge around, mill around, frig around, arse around, mess about, lurk, bum around, lounge, waylay, loiter, loll, mill about, bum, mill, lollygag, skulk, lallygag, footle, tarry, ambuscade, linger, lie in wait, scupper, ambush, lounge about, dawdle, waste one's time

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  1. hang around

    Synonyms:
    loiter about

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How to use hang around in a sentence?

  1. Zig Ziglar:

    Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

  2. Richie Fay:

    Our audience will remain loyal to the film, the great news is that movies play to female audiences, particularly older female audiences, hang around in the marketplace for a long time.

  3. Steve Kerr:

    This has been a pattern during this bad spell for us, we’re not stepping on teams when they are down. We’re making mistakes and allowing teams to hang around, and when you do that in this league you’re dead.

  4. Danny Bucher:

    As a general rule they're nomadic, but if there's a reliable supply of food, they'll hang around while that food lasts.

  5. Stefano Gatti:

    The radical far-right feels more legitimized and stronger, thus they're more active, twenty years ago you couldn't hang around shouting' Viva il Duce,' there was greater resistance towards extremist themes. The dam barriers have been lowered, so people feel they can freely pour hatred towards Liliana Segre online.


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  • abhängen, rumhängen, herumhängenGerman
  • hengailla, hengata, norkoillaFinnish
  • traînerFrench
  • csellengHungarian
  • rondhangenDutch
  • тусоваться, шляться, встречаться, шататься, дружить, тереться, околачиваться, водиться, ошиваться, слонятьсяRussian
  • hängaSwedish

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