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hang around

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hang around
1. to stay in a place. I don't like to hang around here after dark. He had stupidly hung around — just to see what the cops were doing — and ended up being arrested!
2. to be with another person. I hate hanging around with her in the mall. It's so boring!
3. to not go away. The flu can hang around for almost a month.
Usage notes: usually said about a medical condition, as in the example
See also: around, hang

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Some would hang around the necks, or rather on the breasts of their horses, the most precious ornaments they had obtained from the white men; others interwove feathers in their manes and tails.
You won't go back to your ships and sea; therefore, you'll hang around these pest-holes of cities until your bones are rotten, and then you'll die.
There shall it flame for ages, making a noonday of midnight, glittering on the suits of armor, the banners, and escutcheons, that hang around the wall, and keeping bright the memory of heroes.
 
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