Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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vb. (context intransitive English) To remain in a particular place or status.
WordNet
Usage examples of "hang in".
I woke with an aching tiredness of bone, a mouth like a cricket cage, grainy eyes, and skin that seemed to have stretched so that it was too big for me and wanted to hang in tired, draped folds.
The words, unspoken but understood by all of them, seemed to hang in the empty air.
It took all her willpower to keep from simply letting herself hang in the grip of the two Zazesspurian city policemen who stood flanking her.
Elminster smiled at that memory, slowing his plunge to hang in the star-shot darkness.
Two figures - tiny dolls in the field of the telescope - seemed to hang in the air as they leaped.
Two figures tiny dolls in the field of the telescope seemed to hang in the air as they leaped.
Granted, most of the people sniping at travelers from the chaparral were murderers, either crazy or cold-blooded, whom any jury would hang in a second, so it made sense to kill them quickly and efficiently.
Fields and woods seem to hang in some inescapable middle distance, at once static and fluid, quick, like mirages.
Every eye fixed on the basket-hilted sword, the tempered length of it glinting in the sun as it turned end over end over end, with such inertia that it seemed to hang in the air for a moment before plunging earthward.