- hang around (or round or Brit. about)
- hang around (or round or Brit. about)1》 loiter; wait around.2》 (hang around with) associate with.→ hang
English new terms dictionary. 2014.
hang around (or round or Brit. about)
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hang around — verb be about (Freq. 7) The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square Who is this man that is hanging around the department? • Syn: ↑loiter, ↑lounge, ↑footle, ↑lollygag, ↑loaf, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
hang around — (in BRIT, also use hang about, hang round) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you hang around, hang about, or hang round, you stay in the same place doing nothing, usually because you are waiting for something or someone. [INFORMAL] [V P ing] He got sick of… … English dictionary
hang — verb (past and past participle hung except in sense 2) 1》 suspend or be suspended from above with the lower part not attached. ↘attach or be attached so as to allow free movement about the point of attachment. ↘attach (meat or game) to a… … English new terms dictionary
round — I [[t]ra͟ʊnd[/t]] PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES ♦♦ (Round is an adverb and preposition that has the same meanings as around . Round is often used with verbs of movement, such as walk and drive , and also in phrasal verbs such as get round and hand… … English dictionary
lie around — verb hang around idly (Freq. 1) She did all the work while he lay around • Syn: ↑lie about • Hypernyms: ↑idle, ↑laze, ↑slug, ↑stagnate … Useful english dictionary
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loaf — verb Syn: laze, lounge, loll, idle; informal hang around/round; Brit.; informal hang about, mooch about/around; N.Amer.; informal bum around … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
twiddle one's thumbs — BE IDLE, kick one s heels, kill time, waste time; informal hang around/round; Brit. informal hang about. → twiddle * * * phrasal : to spend time vacantly : do nothing kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs * * * twiddle one s… … Useful english dictionary
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literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
