Synonyms and Antonyms of hang (around or out)
1
to come or be together as friends
- she still hangs around with her college roommate
associate, chum, company, consociate, consort, fraternize, hobnob, hook up, mess around, pal (around), run, sort, travel
affiliate, ally, attach, band, bond, club, collaborate, collude, confederate, conjoin, connect, cooperate, couple, gang, get along, get on, group, interrelate, join, knot, league, link, mingle, mix, rally, relate, side, socialize, team, tie, wed
befriend, friend
avoid, cold-shoulder, shun, snub
alienate, estrange
break up, disband, disperse, split (up)
disjoin, dissociate, disunite, divorce, sever, split, sunder
2
to spend time doing nothing
- for my vacation I plan to rent a beach house and just hang out
bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang about [British], idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out
fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
doze, estivate (also aestivate), hibernate
lag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarry
amble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swan
furlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant
drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, work
apply, buckle (down)
exert, put out
