Synonyms for hang around
hang around

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1. loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill aroundverb

   be about

   "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

   Synonyms:
   loll around, loaf, bushwhack, bum about, hover, arse about, lounge around, mill around, frig around, arse around, mess about, lurk, bum around, lounge, waylay, loiter, loll, mill about, bum, mill, lollygag, skulk, lallygag, footle, tarry, ambuscade, linger, lie in wait, scupper, ambush, lounge about, dawdle, waste one's time

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1. hang around

   Synonyms:
   loiter about

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1. David Bellinger:

   They have much shorter biological half lives than, say, the heavy metals, which can hang around for decades.

2. Gary Gulman:

   Life and Beth. i got a really fun part on that and got to hang around with Amy and Michael [ Rapaport ] and other comedians on the show, and it was really, it was so much fun.

3. William Haseltine:

   It means that we have to be on the alert for constant change, this virus is going to respond to whatever we do to control it. We make a drug, it is going to resist it. We make a vaccine, it is going to try to get around it. We stay at home, it is going to figure out how to hang around longer.

4. Johnny Gaudreau:

   We had a ton of opportunities to make it a 4-1 game there at one point, we didn’t and we let them hang around. I thought we were playing well, 5 on 5, but our power play, we have to find a way to put the puck in the net.

5. Richie Fay:

   Our audience will remain loyal to the film, the great news is that movies play to female audiences, particularly older female audiences, hang around in the marketplace for a long time.