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hangs about
verb
Third person singular of hang about
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"I don't want to see us wither away and become like one of those ghost unions that hangs about with Unite.
He has been a billionaire since his mid-twenties, when he was one of the founders of PayPal, so it is likely that pretty much everyone with whom he hangs about can afford to drop $75,000 on a car.
If the bee hangs about, visiting other flowers on the same plant, it will fertilize the plant with its own pollen, producing defective, inbred seeds that are unlikely to sprout into healthy offspring.
A sinister looking chap called Cult Leader Asshole – a sort of pope – hangs about, while haughty senoras dance, and another gaggle of troupers, some with their foam-rubber, pipe-lagging entrails, make an incomprehensible appearance.
A sense of fatalism hangs about.
The beard hangs about four inches below the best guess as to where Keisel's chin resides.
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So, why hang about?
But hang about!
"Hang about, Thor's mythical, right?
They cluster and hang about, angling for a nip.
Hang about," he said, with a doubtful frown.
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