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hangs (around or out)

verb , present tense third-person singular of hang (around or out)

Synonyms and Antonyms of hangs (around or out)

1 to come or be together as friends

she still hangs around with her college roommate

Synonyms of hangs (around or out)

associates, chums, companies, consociates, consorts, fraternizes, hobnobs, hooks up, messes around, pals (around), runs, sorts, travels

Words Related to hangs (around or out)

affiliates, allies, attaches, bands, bonds, clubs, collaborates, colludes, confederates, conjoins, connects, cooperates, couples, gangs, gets along, gets on, groups, interrelates, joins, knots, leagues, links, mingles, mixes, rallies, relates, sides, socializes, teams, ties, weds

befriends, friends

Phrases Synonymous with hangs (around or out)

falls in with, is friends with, keeps company (with), rubs elbows (with) or rubs shoulders (with) , takes up with

Near Antonyms of hangs (around or out)

avoids, cold-shoulders, shuns, snubs

alienates, estranges

breaks up, disbands, disperses, splits (up)

disjoins, dissociates, disunites, divorces, severs, splits, sunders

2 to spend time doing nothing

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

Synonyms of hangs (around or out)

bums, chills, dallies, dawdles, dillydallies, drones, footles, goofs (off), hacks (around), hangs about [British], idles, kicks around, kicks back, lazes, lazies, loafs, lolls, lounges, vegges out (or veges out)

Words Related to hangs (around or out)

fiddles (around), fools, messes, monkeys, mucks, piddles, plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles

dozes, estivates (also aestivates), hibernates

lags, lingers, loiters, pokes, relaxes, rests, tarries

ambles, moseys, saunters, strolls, swans

furloughs, goldbricks, malingers, truants

Phrases Synonymous with hangs (around or out)

kills time, twiddles one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of hangs (around or out)

drudges, grinds, grubs, humps, hustles, labors, moils, pegs, plods, plows, plugs, slaves, sweats, toils, travails, works

applies, buckles (down)

exerts, puts out

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