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hanging (around or out)

verb , present participle of hang (around or out)

Synonyms and Antonyms of hanging (around or out)

1 to come or be together as friends

she still hangs around with her college roommate

Synonyms of hanging (around or out)

associating, chumming, companying, consociating, consorting, fraternizing, hobnobbing, hooking up, messing around, palling (around), running, sorting, traveling (or travelling)

Words Related to hanging (around or out)

affiliating, allying, attaching, banding, bonding, clubbing, collaborating, colluding, confederating, conjoining, connecting, cooperating, coupling, ganging, getting along, getting on, grouping, interrelating, joining, knotting, leaguing, linking, mingling, mixing, rallying, relating, siding, socializing, teaming, tying (or tieing), wedding

befriending, friending

Phrases Synonymous with hanging (around or out)

being friends with, falling in with, keeping company (with), rubbing elbows (with) or rubbing shoulders (with) , taking up with

Near Antonyms of hanging (around or out)

avoiding, cold-shouldering, shunning, snubbing

alienating, estranging

breaking up, disbanding, dispersing, splitting (up)

disjoining, dissociating, disuniting, divorcing, severing, splitting, sundering

2 to spend time doing nothing

for my vacation I plan to rent a beach house and just hang out

Synonyms of hanging (around or out)

bumming, chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about [British], idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out

Words Related to hanging (around or out)

fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

dozing, estivating (also aestivating), hibernating

lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarrying

ambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanning

furloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting

Phrases Synonymous with hanging (around or out)

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of hanging (around or out)

drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, working

applying, buckling (down)

exerting, putting out

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maunder

to wander slowly or to speak indistinctly