Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæŋ ˈaʊt/Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HANGOUT

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Verb

hang out (third-person singular simple present hangs out, present participle hanging out, simple past and past participle hung out)Category:English lemmas#HANGOUTCategory:English verbs#HANGOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs#HANGOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22out%22#HANGOUTCategory:English multiword terms#HANGOUTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HANGOUTCategory:Pages with entries#HANG%20OUTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#HANG%20OUT

1. Category:en:Rest#HANGOUT(intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HANGOUT, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#HANGOUT, slangCategory:English slang#HANGOUT, often with with) To spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with somebody.

   Synonyms: socialize, hang with, roll with

   After the film, do you want to go hang out?Category:English terms with usage examples#HANGOUT

   He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.Category:English terms with usage examples#HANGOUT

   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxiii. 177:

     "I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go."

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   • 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 25 April 2025:

     The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.

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2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HANGOUT, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#HANGOUT, slangCategory:English slang#HANGOUT) To lodge or reside; to exist.
   • 1836-37, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Pickwick Papers:

     Mr Bob Sawyer... inquired: I say, old boy, where do you hang out? Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.

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3. (datedCategory:English dated terms#HANGOUT, informalCategory:English informal terms#HANGOUT) To be unyielding; to hold out.

   The juryman hangs out against an agreement.Category:English terms with usage examples#HANGOUT

4. (informalCategory:English informal terms#HANGOUT) To crave or desperately want (something).
5. (informalCategory:English informal terms#HANGOUT) To endure or delay.
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang,‎ out.

   When a dog pants, its tongue often hangs out of its mouth.Category:English terms with usage examples#HANGOUT

See also

• hang out one's shingle
• hang out to dry

Anagrams

• Aughton, Tonghua, tohunga