hang about

British

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Recent Examples of hang about Sizes Tablecloths should hang about 8-16 inches on each side for formal dining and about 3-6 inches on each side for casual dining. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 June 2025 Most asteroids hang about in the Mars to Jupiter region, and the ones near Earth obviously hang about a bit closer. Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024 The big picture: The nine-block shopping district got its own Art Deco-style sign on Monday, which now hangs about 25 feet in the air over Cary Street by Burtons Grill & Bar. Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024 The show’s two strong female leads (Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke) notably spent the season largely hanging about their respective castles without impacting the show’s action and viewers also accused the season of sidelining fan-favorite Daemon (Matt Smith). James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2024 Step 4: Make Height Adjustments Ideally, the hammock should hang about 4 feet off the ground when not in use, and about 2 feet off the ground when it's occupied. Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024 The same coziness—now curdled—hung about several of the Delawareans called to testify. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024 And so Hamid, who was formerly a literature professor in Aleppo, starts hanging about on campus, tailing his suspect and straying ever deeper into the gray area between the righteous search for justice and all-out vigilantism. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hang about
Verb
  • This is something Kang was championing — badass characters who also veg out on the couch without makeup on.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And while humans tend to veg out on the couch, canines typically only watch for short periods.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • Kirk played a pivotal role in helping Republicans close the gap among young voters in 2024.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The Astros are now one game behind the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians, with two games to play.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The magnetic and laser forces are arranged so that any lithium atom that might otherwise fly away from the center is most likely to absorb a photon from the lasers, getting a momentum kick back into the trap.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
  • So, kick back, relax, and let your credit card do the work for you this weekend.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gisin hopes that by fooling around with measurements of these more exotic states, physicists will come to better understand the role of measurement in general.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Those have come from two players: Adrian Morejon of the San Diego Padres, who throws an odd knuckleball-changeup hybrid about 1 percent of the time, and Jonah Bride of the Minnesota Twins, an infielder fooling around with the knuckler in blowouts.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Yet, Putin continues to mess around with everyone by making knowingly unacceptable proposals.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Almost all my poems go through like 10 plus drafts within their first week of life—I’m just constantly changing the line breaks, cutting lines out, messing around with the order, placing commas then taking them out again, adding concrete imagery, trying weird stuff.
    Peter Mishler August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • During an April cruise on MSC World America, passengers lounged in brown and cream chairs in the Yacht Club's Top Sail Lounge while sunlight poured in through floor-to-ceiling windows.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This newly designed, two-story space will celebrate classic California Craftsman design and will be a place for lounging with a good book, relaxing with a glass of wine or admiring the hotel’s Great Hall lobby below.
    Jessica Peralta, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That’s what was bumming him out.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • To be this close over and over is really bumming me out.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Its credibility will rest on who is chosen to serve.
    Vilas Dhar, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Douglas crew looked rested and relaxed while on vacation over the Thanksgiving break back in 2022.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Hang about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hang%20about. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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