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[ verb ] be about

Examples

"The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square" "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

Used in print

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him , or at_least coming_up and hanging_around and wanting to know all the low-down .

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

While she was thus engaged , McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day , any recollections she had of people hanging_around , of overcurious delivery_boys or repairmen , of strange cars cruising the neighborhood .

Related terms

be prowl loiterer

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