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hang about

vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To stay, linger or loiter. 2 (context idiomatic English) To spend time or be friends (especially '''to hang about with''' someone).

Usage examples of "hang about".

As it happened the dress rehearsal finished long before curtain-up time, and, rather than hang about, the T.

Now the minuet is ending I would wager he will follow her to her seat and hang about her.

At the approach of the rainy season a deathly chill and a graveyard smell began to hang about the lower floors.

Then he bought a wide and deep carven bed, big enough for a small room in itself, and he bought flowered curtains to hang about it But in all this he was ashamed to ask O-lan anything, and so in the evenings his uncle's wife came in and she hung the bed curtains and did the things a man is too clumsy for doing.