hang
/hæŋ/ noun C2- The way in which something hangs. · This skirt has a nice hang.
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- An instance of ceasing to respond to input. · We sometimes get system hangs.
- A grip, understanding.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
Plural hangs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- hang about To linger, loiter, or stay.
- hang around To stay, linger, or loiter.
- hang back To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.
- hang in To remain in a particular place or status; to survive, ma...
- hang off To hold back; to resist moving forward with something des...
- hang on To wait a moment.
- hang onto to keep
- hang out To spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with someb...
- hang over To be threatening, to be imminent.
- hang up To put up to hang.
From the library
I only say they cost a load of money to hang, and what is the use of them, I should like to know?”
Staunton, the rising young forger,” said he, “and there was Henry Staunton, whom I helped to hang, but Godfrey Staunton is a new name to me.”
They hang, behead, and impale their criminals in the most agreeable possible manner; but some of these, like clever rogues, have contrived to escape human justice, and succeed in their fraudulent enterprises by cunning stratagems.
“Hang it all, Mr.
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