TO HANG AROUND

  

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TO HANG AROUND

Definition: TO HANG AROUND

TO HANG AROUND

1. To loiter idly about.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Usage: TO HANG AROUND

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If you're a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Yeah, he's just really great to hang around with. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Lyrics

You don't need a penny just to hang around, (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

There's no one here they want to hang around (Angels Would Fall; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

She's the same little girl who used to hang around my door. (Valleri; performing artist: The Monkees)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: TO HANG AROUND

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

He began to hang around the mansion house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: TO HANG AROUND

Language Translations for "TO HANG AROUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

浪蕩 (to loiter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kószál (fool about, gad about, hang around, Maunder, ramble, roam, rove, stroll, to fool about, to fool around, to go on the loose, to hang about, to loll, to lollop, to lounge, to maunder, to ramble, to roam about, to rove, to saunter, to stroll, to trollop about), csoportosul (band together, flock together, group, to aggregate, to bunch, to cluster, to flock, to group, to hang about, to troop), cselleng (dawdle, hang about, hang around, hover, lounge about, straggle, to dawdle, to hang about, to laze, to lop about, to sheer, to trapes), ólálkodik (mouse, skulk, slank, slink, slunk, to be on the lurk, to hang about, to lurk, to skulk, to slink). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ぶどう' (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, Japanese beech tree, lazily, loaf, loiter, soft and flabby, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing, to dangle, to linger, to stroll about, to swing, wine). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぶらつく (to dangle, to linger, to stroll about, to swing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay anghay arounday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO HANG AROUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-h-n-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-3 letters: grandaunt, nonauthor, orangutan.

-4 letters: argonaut, aunthood, guardant, honorand.

-5 letters: agoroth, aground, donator, dragoon, draught, drought, gadroon, gardant, handgun, handout, hangout, nondrug, odorant, organon, orotund, outdrag, outrang, rotunda, tandoor, tornado.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO HANG AROUND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      48 41 4E 47      41 52 4F 55 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000001 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#65 &#82 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0048 0041 004E 0047      0041 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492423548412355249554838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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