hang out
/ˈhæŋ ˈaʊt/ verb- To spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with somebody. · After the film, do you want to go hang out?· He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.
- To lodge or reside; to exist.
- To be unyielding; to hold out. · The juryman hangs out against an agreement.
- To crave or desperately want (something).
- To endure or delay.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out. · When a dog pants, its tongue often hangs out of its mouth.
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Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
He explained, “This is the only way we can hang out right now.”
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