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- verb intransitive, idiomatic, slang To spend time doing nothing in particular.
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- verb spend time in a certain location or with certain people
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yarb commented on the word hang out
Before they separated, however, that gentleman and Mr. Benjamin Allen drew Mr. Pickwick aside with an air of some mystery; and Mr. Bob Sawyer, thrusting his forefinger between two of Mr. Pickwick's ribs, and thereby displaying his native drollery, and his knowledge of the anatomy of the human frame, at one and the same time, inquired--
'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?'
Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.
'I wish you'd come and see me,' said Bob Sawyer.
- Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1840), ch. XXX
February 21, 2009