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The first day of Liberty, I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in.

“I was good enough to keep hanging around, but never good enough to break through to the majors,” he says.

I chose track because there seemed to be a lot of hanging around at track and field events.

That is a lovely one, but my favorite one is when she threatens him: “His balls are going to be hanging around my neck.”

About a dozen militiamen were hanging around it, including a uniformed woman with bright red hair.

He was hanging around by the cab stand above 96th on the west side of Broadway, waiting hopefully.

Six regular poachers come daily to The Chequers, but there are many others hanging around who are merely amateurs.

He is simply hanging around here to try and work his way into the good graces of your daughter.

Ida was in an embowered recess, Mr. Lacy for a companion, and Charley hanging around to play propriety.

Why, I offered to thrash him and his two boys only three weeks ago, for hanging around after dark where I had a trawl set.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hanging around, such as: abide, affect, dally, frequent, haunt, and linger.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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