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单词 hanging about
释义

hang about

verb

hung about; hanging about; hangs about

intransitive verb

British
: hang sense 12

Synonyms

  • bum
  • chill
  • dally
  • dawdle
  • dillydally
  • drone
  • footle
  • goof (off)
  • hack (around)
  • hang (around or out)
  • idle
  • kick around
  • kick back
  • laze
  • lazy
  • loaf
  • loll
  • lounge
  • veg out
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Example Sentences

a tea house near campus where many university students could be seen hanging about we'll be hanging about at the pub if you need us

Word History

First Known Use

1781, in the meaning defined above

hanging about

verb

present participle of hang about, British
1
as in killing time
to spend time doing nothing a tea house near campus where many university students could be seen hanging about

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • killing time
  • kicking back
  • vegging out
  • hacking (around)
  • kicking around
  • goofing (off)
  • twiddling one's thumbs
  • hanging (around or out)
  • lounging
  • chilling
  • resting
  • playing
  • idling
  • loafing
  • relaxing
  • bumming
  • strolling
  • lazing
  • poking
  • dawdling
  • droning
  • footling
  • dillydallying
  • lolling
  • messing
  • mucking
  • fiddling (around)
  • lazying
  • lingering
  • puttering (around)
  • pottering (around)
  • estivating
  • dallying
  • trifling
  • piddling
  • fooling
  • monkeying
  • hibernating
  • dozing
  • loitering
  • lagging
  • sauntering
  • ambling
  • moseying
  • aestivating
  • malingering
  • goldbricking
  • tarrying
  • truanting
  • swanning
  • furloughing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • buckling (down)
  • working
  • laboring
  • plowing
  • grinding
  • sweating
  • plugging
  • toiling
  • plodding
  • grubbing
  • humping
  • pegging
  • hustling
  • slaving
  • applying
  • drudging
  • travailing
  • moiling
  • exerting
  • putting out
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as in fooling around
to spend time in aimless activity we'll be hanging about at the pub if you need us

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • fooling around
  • messing around
  • playing
  • fribbling
  • fiddling (around)
  • puttering (around)
  • pottering (around)
  • goofing (around)
  • kicking around
  • monkeying (around)
  • doodling
  • horsing around
  • trifling
  • lounging
  • hanging (around or out)
  • idling
  • clowning (around)
  • loafing
  • diddling (with)
  • dawdling
  • dillydallying
  • lolling
  • tinkering
  • dallying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • settling (down)
  • setting (to)
  • buckling (down)
  • knuckling down
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