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ALL meanings of hang out

hang out
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  • idioms hang out hang together, to be loyal to one another; remain united: “We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”. to cohere: This pancake batter doesn't hang together. to be logical or consistent: His version of the story does not hang together. 1
  • idioms hang out hang tough, Slang. to remain unyielding, stubborn, or inflexible: He's hanging tough and won't change his mind. 1
  • idioms hang out let it all hang out, Slang. to be completely candid in expressing one's feelings, opinions, etc.: She's never been one to let it all hang out. to act or live without restraint or inhibitions. 1
  • noun hang out Hang has two forms for the past tense and past participle, hanged and hung. The historically older form hanged is now used exclusively in the sense of causing or putting to death:  He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead.  In the sense of legal execution, hung is also quite common and is standard in all types of speech and writing except in legal documents. When legal execution is not meant, hung has become the more frequent form:  The prisoner hung himself in his cell.   1
  • verb hang out (Intransitive Verb) IDI (slang) To spend time doing nothing in particular. 0
  • verb hang out (Informal) (dated) To be unyielding; to hold out. 0
  • phrasal verb hang out If you hang out clothes that you have washed, you hang them on a clothes line to dry. 0
  • phrasal verb hang out If you hang out in a particular place or area, you go and stay there for no particular reason, or spend a lot of time there. 0
  • verb hang out to suspend, be suspended, or lean, esp from an opening, as for display or airing 0
  • verb hang out to live at or frequent a place 0
  • verb hang out to frequent the company (of someone) 0
  • verb hang out to relax completely in an unassuming way (esp in the phrase let it all hang out) 0
  • verb hang out to act or speak freely, in an open, cooperative, or indiscreet manner 0
  • noun hang out a place where one lives or that one frequently visits 0
  • noun hang out a place where groups of people go to socialize 0
  • noun hang out to lean out 0
  • noun hang out to display, as by suspending 0
  • noun hang out to reside 0
  • noun hang out to spend much of one's time; frequent a place 0
  • noun hang out to loiter; idle 0
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