hang out

[hang out] {v.}

1. {slang} To spend your time idly or lounging about.

* /The teacher complained that Joe was hanging out in poolrooms instead of doing his homework./

Compare: HANG AROUND(1). 2. {slang} To live; reside.

* /Two policemen stopped the stranger and asked him where he hung out./

3. To reach out farther than the part below.

* /The branches of the trees hung out over the road./

* /The upper floor of that house hangs out above the first./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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